Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 33
We do not know how much more frequent these things were in the old days, but there were probably eras of quiet and eras of excitement just as at present.
Who acts: We, things, eras · What happens: not know, be
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, things, eras), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 frequent | advmod |
| 8 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 days | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 days | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 days | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 days | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 days | amod |
| 15 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 know | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | parataxis |
| 20 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 21 eras | advmod |
| 21 | eras | era | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 quiet | case |
| 23 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eras | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eras | cc |
| 25 | eras | era | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eras | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 excitement | case |
| 27 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eras | nmod |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 present | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 present | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 present | case |
| 31 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eras | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | this things | in the frequent old days | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | eras of quiet at present and eras of excitement | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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