Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 87
This is the rock of the uppermost layer of the cliff which here borders the greater crater of Kilauea.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: rock
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 rock | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rock | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rock | det |
| 4 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 layer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 layer | det |
| 7 | uppermost | uppermost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 layer | amod |
| 8 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rock | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cliff | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cliff | det |
| 11 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 layer | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 here | nsubj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 cliff | advmod |
| 14 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 here | nsubj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 crater | det |
| 16 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 crater | amod |
| 17 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 borders | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Kilauea | case |
| 19 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 crater | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the rock | of the uppermost layer of the cliff | 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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