Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 4
Kilauea is a mountain a little over 4,000 feet in altitude, closely connected with Mauna Loa, which is about 13,000 feet in altitude.
Who acts: Kilauea, Mauna · What happens: be, connect · To what, where: mountain, altitude, 13,000 feet
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 (Kilauea, Mauna), 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 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mountain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mountain | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mountain | det |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feet | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feet | amod |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 4,000 | advmod |
| 8 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 feet | nummod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mountain | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 altitude | case |
| 11 | altitude | altitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feet | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 connected | punct |
| 13 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 14 connected | advmod |
| 14 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 altitude | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Mauna | case |
| 16 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 connected | obl |
| 17 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mauna | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 feet | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 feet | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 feet | cop |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 13,000 | advmod |
| 22 | 13,000 | 13,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 feet | nummod |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Mauna | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 altitude | case |
| 25 | altitude | altitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 feet | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mountain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kilauea | a mountain | a little 4,000 feet in altitude nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | connect | participle | altitude not said here | with Mauna and 13,000 feet; closely property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with mauna=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | Mauna and 13,000 feet | 13,000 feet | altitude | 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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