Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 89
The specimens taken from the water were of the a-a variety and very light.
Who acts: specimens · What happens: take, be · To what, where: specimens, water
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 (specimens), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 specimens | det |
| 2 | specimens | specimen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 variety | nsubj |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 specimens | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 variety | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 variety | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 variety | det |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 variety | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 variety | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 variety | det |
| 13 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 light | cc |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 light | advmod |
| 16 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 variety | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 variety | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | participle | the specimens not said here | the water | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the specimens | of the variety | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the specimens not said here | tree rules |
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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