Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 14
Other volcanoes are more or less connected in chains, making many stations necessary in order to determine the relations of the different craters to each other.
Who acts: Other volcanoes · What happens: be, connect, make, determine · To what, where: chains, many stations, relations
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 (Other volcanoes), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 volcanoes | amod |
| 2 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 more | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 connected | cc |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 connected | advmod |
| 7 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 more | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 chains | case |
| 9 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 connected | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 making | punct |
| 11 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 connected | advcl |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stations | amod |
| 13 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 making | obj |
| 14 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 making | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 determine | mark |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | fixed |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 determine | mark |
| 18 | determine | determine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 necessary | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 relations | det |
| 20 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 determine | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 craters | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 craters | det |
| 23 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 craters | amod |
| 24 | craters | crater | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 relations | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 24 craters | obl |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Other volcanoes | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | connect | participle | Other volcanoes not said here | chains | less property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | Other volcanoes not said here | many stations | necessary property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset station=Product | |||
| 4 | determine | to-infinitive | Other volcanoes not said here | the relations of the different craters | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relation=Topic |
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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