Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 83
A veranda extending along two sides commands extensive views of the three volcanoes, Kilauea, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea.
Who acts: veranda · What happens: extend, command, view · To what, where: two sides, extensive views, three volcanoes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (veranda), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 veranda | det |
| 2 | veranda | veranda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commands | nsubj |
| 3 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 veranda | acl |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 sides | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sides | nummod |
| 6 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 extending | obl |
| 7 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 views | amod |
| 9 | views | view | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 commands | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 volcanoes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 volcanoes | det |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 volcanoes | nummod |
| 13 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 views | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kilauea | punct |
| 15 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 volcanoes | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mauna | punct |
| 17 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kilauea | appos |
| 18 | Loa | Loa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mauna | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kea | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Kea | cc |
| 21 | Mauna | Mauna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Kea | compound |
| 22 | Kea | Kea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 commands | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 commands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | gerund | a veranda not said here | two sides | vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent along side=Path | ||||
| 2 | command | present | a veranda | extensive views of the three volcanoes | Mauna Kea obl | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | view | the three volcanoes | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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