Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 27
This outer crater is about three and a half miles across.
Who acts: outer crater · What happens: be · To what, where: three half miles
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: who acts (outer crater), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 crater | det |
| 2 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crater | amod |
| 3 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 miles | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 miles | cop |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 three | advmod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 miles | nummod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 miles | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 half | det |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 10 miles | compound |
| 10 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | across | across | ADV | _ | 10 miles | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 miles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this outer crater | three half miles | across property | 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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