--- title: “The Challenger” surveyors give the average depth of the Pacific Oce… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: “The Challenger” surveyors give the average depth of the Pacific Ocean as about 2,400 fathoms, while between the Caroline and Ladrone groups of islands lies a valley whose ooze-carpeted floor can be reached only by a sounding line about 25,000 feet long, and near Japan about 30,000 feet of line is n --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/25/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/25/) / 5 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 5 “The Challenger” surveyors give the average depth of the Pacific Ocean as about 2,400 fathoms, while between the Caroline and Ladrone groups of islands lies a valley whose ooze-carpeted floor can be reached only by a sounding line about 25,000 feet long, and near Japan about 30,000 feet of line is needed to reach the bottom of one of the deepest pits on the globe. **Who acts:** surveyors, valley, sounding line · **What happens:** give, lie, carpet, reach, need · **To what, where:** Challenger, Caroline, ooze carpeted floor, 30,000 feet, Japan, bottom This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surveyors, valley, sounding line), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:25:5 # text = “The Challenger” surveyors give the average depth of the Pacific Ocean as about 2,400 fathoms, while between the Caroline and Ladrone groups of islands lies a valley whose ooze-carpeted floor can be reached only by a sounding line about 25,000 feet long, and near Japan about 30,000 feet of line is needed to reach the bottom of one of the deepest pits on the globe. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Challenger Challenger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 surveyors surveyor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Pacific Pacific PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 2,400 2,400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 fathoms fathom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 20 between between ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Caroline Caroline PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Ladrone Ladrone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 31 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 35 nmod:poss _ _ 32 ooze ooze NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 carpeted carpet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 39 only only ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 sounding sounding NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 44 about about ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 25,000 25000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 46 nummod _ _ 46 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl:unmarked _ _ 47 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 50 near near ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obl _ _ 52 about about ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 30,000 30,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 54 nummod _ _ 54 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 line line NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 57 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 aux:pass _ _ 58 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 60 mark _ _ 60 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 advcl _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obj _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 62 nmod _ _ 65 of of ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 68 amod _ _ 68 pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 nmod _ _ 69 on on ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 72 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | surveyors | the Challenger | | | | as 2,400 fathoms; the average depth of the Pacific Ocean *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | present | a valley | | | the Caroline and Ladrone and groups of islands | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between caroline=Location | | 3 | **carpet** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **reach** | can · passive | a sounding line | ooze carpeted floor | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **need** | present · passive | | 30,000 feet | | Japan | | line *nsubj:pass* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **reach** | to-infinitive | | the bottom of one of the deepest pits on the globe | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bottom=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/25/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/25/6/) - ↑ back to [The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/25/)