Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 16
Between these two branches of the lava river lay stretched a tract of ancient lava several miles wide, desolate and dreary save for small clumps of trees and patches of ferns and grass.
Who acts: you · What happens: stretch, desolate, save · To what, where: tract
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 4 branches | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 branches | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 branches | nummod |
| 4 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretched | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 river | compound |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretched | obl |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stretched | aux:pass |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 desolate | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tract | det |
| 12 | tract | tract | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stretched | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lava | case |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lava | amod |
| 15 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tract | nmod |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 miles | amod |
| 17 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretched | obl |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 10 stretched | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 desolate | punct |
| 20 | desolate | desolate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 save | cc |
| 22 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 save | amod |
| 23 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 desolate | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 clumps | case |
| 25 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 clumps | amod |
| 26 | clumps | clump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 save | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 clumps | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 patches | cc |
| 30 | patches | patch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 clumps | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 ferns | case |
| 32 | ferns | fern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 patches | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grass | cc |
| 34 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ferns | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 desolate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past · passive | you not said here | a tract of ancient lava | between this two branches; of the lava river; several miles obl; wide property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: tract=Patient | |||
| 2 | desolate | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | present | you not said here | for small clumps of trees and patches of ferns and grass | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for clump=Source |
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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