Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 5
It has been stated that there is some connection which affects the action of two lakes of lava in the two craters.
Who acts: connection, two lakes · What happens: state, be, affect, act · To what, where: other, action
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 (connection, two lakes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stated | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 stated | aux:pass |
| 4 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 is | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stated | advcl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 connection | det |
| 9 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 affects | nsubj |
| 11 | affects | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 connection | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 action | det |
| 13 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 affects | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lakes | case |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 lakes | nummod |
| 16 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 action | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lava | case |
| 18 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lakes | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 craters | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 craters | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 craters | nummod |
| 22 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lava | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | present · perfect · passive | other | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | some connection | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | affect | present | some connection | the action of two lakes of lava in the two craters | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus action=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | act | two lakes of lava in the two craters | nom action «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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