Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Changes in Kilauea Crater, sentence 6
Kilauea is a great bowl sunken in a plain which seems level but which slopes decidedly toward the large mountain on the one side and the ocean on the other.
Who acts: Kilauea, plain · What happens: be, seem, slope · To what, where: great bowl, level, other
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, plain), 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 | 5 bowl | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bowl | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bowl | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bowl | amod |
| 5 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bowl | amod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 plain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plain | det |
| 9 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sunken | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seems | nsubj |
| 11 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 plain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seems | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 slopes | cc |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 slopes | nsubj |
| 15 | slopes | slope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seems | conj |
| 16 | decidedly | decidedly | ADV | _ | 15 slopes | advmod |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 20 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mountain | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mountain | amod |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slopes | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 side | nummod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mountain | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ocean | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ocean | det |
| 27 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 side | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 slopes | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Kilauea | a great bowl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | a plain | level | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme level=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | slope | present | the other | toward the large mountain on the one side and the ocean; which nsubj; decidedly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on other=Location |
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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