Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 25
The bowl is flat-bottomed with a surface creased and cracked and rough, with twisted piles of dead lava.
What happens: bottom, crease, crack · To what, where: bowl, surface
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Changes in Kilauea Crater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 bowl | det |
| 2 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottomed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bottomed | aux:pass |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bottomed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 flat | punct |
| 6 | bottomed | bottom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 surface | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 surface | det |
| 9 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bottomed | obl |
| 10 | creased | crease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 surface | acl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cracked | cc |
| 12 | cracked | crack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 creased | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rough | cc |
| 14 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creased | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 piles | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 piles | case |
| 17 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 piles | amod |
| 18 | piles | pile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bottomed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 lava | case |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lava | amod |
| 21 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piles | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bottomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bottom | present · passive | the bowl | with a surface; with twisted piles of dead lava | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crease | participle | a surface not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | crack | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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