Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 15
Kilauea and Mauna Loa form an isolated centre of activity, over 2,000 miles from the nearest active vent, so that the phenomena of these two vents can be recorded without complications occasioned by other near-by centres.
Who acts: Kilauea · What happens: form, record, occasion · To what, where: isolated centre, phenomena, complications, centres
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 (Kilauea), 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 form | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Mauna | cc |
| 3 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kilauea | conj |
| 4 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mauna | flat |
| 5 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 centre | det |
| 7 | isolated | isolated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centre | amod |
| 8 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 activity | case |
| 10 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centre | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 miles | punct |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 2,000 | advmod |
| 13 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 miles | nummod |
| 14 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 centre | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 vent | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vent | det |
| 17 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 vent | amod |
| 18 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 vent | amod |
| 19 | vent | vent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 miles | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 recorded | punct |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 recorded | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 phenomena | det |
| 24 | phenomena | phenomena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 vents | case |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 vents | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 vents | nummod |
| 28 | vents | vent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 phenomena | nmod |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 recorded | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 recorded | aux:pass |
| 31 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 form | conj |
| 32 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 complications | case |
| 33 | complications | complication | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 recorded | obl |
| 34 | occasioned | occasion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 complications | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 other | case |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 occasioned | obl |
| 37 | near | near | ADP | _ | 40 centres | case |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 near | punct |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 centres | case |
| 40 | centres | centre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 occasioned | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | Kilauea and Mauna | a isolated centre of activity and 2,000 miles from the nearest active vent | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location centre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | record | can · passive | the phenomena of this two vents | without complications | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | occasion | participle | complications not said here | centres | by other | 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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