Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 11
At other volcanoes the eruptions are more explosive and an observatory located close enough to the centre of activity is in some danger.
Who acts: observatory · What happens: be, locate · To what, where: other volcanoes, observatory, danger
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (observatory), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 volcanoes | case |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 volcanoes | amod |
| 3 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 explosive | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eruptions | det |
| 5 | eruptions | eruption | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 volcanoes | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 explosive | cop |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 explosive | advmod |
| 8 | explosive | explosive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 danger | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 observatory | det |
| 11 | observatory | observatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 danger | nsubj |
| 12 | located | locate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 observatory | acl |
| 13 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 located | advmod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 located | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 centre | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 centre | det |
| 17 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 located | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 activity | case |
| 19 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 centre | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 danger | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 danger | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 danger | det |
| 23 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 explosive | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 explosive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | other volcanoes and the eruptions | explosive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | locate | participle | a observatory not said here | to the centre of activity; close, enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a observatory | some danger | 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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