Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 85
Several hundred pieces of these stones were floating on the sea at one time.
Who acts: Several hundred pieces · What happens: float · To what, where: sea
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 (Several hundred pieces), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pieces | amod |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pieces | nummod |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 floating | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stones | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 stones | det |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pieces | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 floating | aux |
| 8 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floating | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 time | nummod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 floating | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 floating | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | past · progressive | Several hundred pieces of this stones | the sea | time | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory |
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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