Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 98
The high mountains of the island Hawaii, snow covered, lay in the distance.
Who acts: high mountains · What happens: cover, lay · To what, where: snow
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high mountains), 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 | 3 mountains | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountains | amod |
| 3 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hawaii | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hawaii | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Hawaii | compound |
| 7 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mountains | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 covered | punct |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mountains | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle · passive | the high mountains of the island Hawaii not said here | snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | the high mountains of the island Hawaii | in the distance | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in distance=Destination |
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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