Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 17
At the end of this uncovered old lava two symmetrical mounds rise from the rugged splintered rocks.
Who acts: two symmetrical mounds · What happens: uncover, rise, rug, splinter · To what, where: end, rocks
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 (two symmetrical mounds), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rise | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lava | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lava | nsubj |
| 6 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lava | amod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lava | amod |
| 8 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rise | obl |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 mounds | nummod |
| 10 | symmetrical | symmetrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mounds | amod |
| 11 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rise | nsubj |
| 12 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 16 splintered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rugged | det |
| 15 | rugged | rug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 splintered | parataxis |
| 16 | splintered | splinter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rise | ccomp |
| 17 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 splintered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncover | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | rise | present | two symmetrical mounds | at the end | of uncovered old lava this | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rug | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | splinter | past | two symmetrical mounds not said here | rocks | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=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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