Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 20
The Central Pacific position is unique, and is of advantage for recording distant earthquakes through the uninterrupted sea floor which lies between Hawaii and many earthquake places such as South America, Mexico, and Japan.
Who acts: Pacific position, advantage, uninterrupted sea floor · What happens: be, record, lie · To what, where: distant earthquakes, uninterrupted sea floor, Hawaii
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 (Pacific position, advantage, uninterrupted sea floor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 position | det |
| 2 | Central | Central | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pacific | flat |
| 3 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 position | compound |
| 4 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unique | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 unique | cop |
| 6 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 advantage | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 advantage | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 advantage | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 advantage | case |
| 11 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 unique | conj |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 recording | mark |
| 13 | recording | record | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 advantage | acl |
| 14 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 earthquakes | amod |
| 15 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 recording | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 floor | det |
| 18 | uninterrupted | uninterrupted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 floor | amod |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 floor | compound |
| 20 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recording | obl |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 lies | nsubj |
| 22 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 floor | acl:relcl |
| 23 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 Hawaii | case |
| 24 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 lies | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 places | cc |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 places | amod |
| 27 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 places | compound |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Hawaii | conj |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 32 America | case |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 such | fixed |
| 31 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 America | compound |
| 32 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 places | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mexico | punct |
| 34 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 America | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Japan | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 Japan | cc |
| 37 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 unique | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 unique | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Pacific position | Japan obl; unique property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Pacific position not said here | of advantage | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | record | gerund | advantage not said here | distant earthquakes | the uninterrupted sea floor | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme through floor=Destination | |||
| 4 | lie | present | the uninterrupted sea floor | Hawaii and many earthquake places such South America and Mexico | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between hawaii=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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