Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 81
Three boats from the steamer went out, cruising over the most active part of the boiling waters, appearing as if passing over rapids.
Who acts: Three boats · What happens: go out, cruise, appear, pass · To what, where: active part, rapids
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three boats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 boats | nummod |
| 2 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 steamer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steamer | det |
| 5 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boats | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cruising | punct |
| 9 | cruising | cruise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 part | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 part | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 active | advmod |
| 13 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 part | amod |
| 14 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cruising | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 waters | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 waters | det |
| 17 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waters | compound |
| 18 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 part | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 appearing | punct |
| 20 | appearing | appear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cruising | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 passing | mark |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 passing | mark |
| 23 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 appearing | advcl |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 rapids | case |
| 25 | rapids | rapid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 passing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Three boats from the steamer | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cruise | gerund | Three boats from the steamer not said here | the active part of the boiling waters | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over part=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | appear | gerund | Three boats from the steamer not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass | gerund | Three boats from the steamer not said here | rapids | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over rapid=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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