Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 98
But it was of South American origin, where there were heavy earth-shocks, and not of Hawaiian.”
Who acts: wave, heavy earth shocks · What happens: be
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 (wave, heavy earth shocks), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 origin | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 origin | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 origin | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 origin | case |
| 5 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 origin | compound |
| 6 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 origin | amod |
| 7 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 were | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 were | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 were | expl |
| 11 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 origin | parataxis |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shocks | amod |
| 13 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shocks | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 earth | punct |
| 15 | shocks | shock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 were | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hawaiian | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Hawaiian | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 Hawaiian | advmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hawaiian | case |
| 20 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 origin | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 Hawaiian | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 origin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wave | of South American origin; Hawaiian appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | heavy earth shocks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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