Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 27
On the shortest path from Kumu-kahi to Kilauea is a great field of many acres of lava stumps.
What happens: be · To what, where: great field, shortest path
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 path | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 path | det |
| 3 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 path | amod |
| 4 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 field | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 kahi | case |
| 6 | Kumu | Kumu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kahi | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Kumu | punct |
| 8 | kahi | kahi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 path | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Kilauea | case |
| 10 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kahi | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 field | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 field | amod |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 acres | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 acres | amod |
| 17 | acres | acre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 field | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stumps | case |
| 19 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stumps | compound |
| 20 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 acres | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 field | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a great field | the shortest path from Kumu kahi to Kilauea | of many acres of lava stumps | 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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