Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 34

It behooves us to give the closest possible attention to all the events of the present and to record them faithfully, so as to render to the scientific historian of the future a consecutive account of all the details which will lead up to some great crisis in the days to come.

Who acts: lava, details · What happens: behoove, give, record, render, lead up, come · To what, where: us, closest possible attention, events, scientific historian, details

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 (lava, details), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 behooves	nsubj
2	behooves	behoove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 behooves	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 behooves	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 attention	det
7	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 attention	amod
8	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 attention	amod
9	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 events	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 events	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 events	det
13	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 present	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 present	det
16	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 events	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 record	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	19 record	mark
19	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 give	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 record	obj
21	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	19 record	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 render	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 render	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 render	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 render	mark
26	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 behooves	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 historian	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 historian	det
29	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 historian	amod
30	historian	historian	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 render	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 future	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 future	det
33	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 historian	nmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 account	det
35	consecutive	consecutive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 account	amod
36	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 historian	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 details	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 details	det:predet
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 details	det
40	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 account	nmod
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 lead	nsubj
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 lead	aux
43	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 details	acl:relcl
44	up	up	ADP	_	43 lead	compound:prt
45	to	to	ADP	_	48 crisis	case
46	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 crisis	det
47	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 crisis	amod
48	crisis	crisis	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lead	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 days	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 days	det
51	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 lead	obl
52	to	to	PART	_	53 come	mark
53	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 days	acl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 behooves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	behoove	present	lava	us				tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive	lava not said here	the closest possible attention	all events of the present			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to event=Recipient
3	record	to-infinitive	lava not said here	events = event			faithfully property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	render	to-infinitive	lava not said here		the scientific historian of the future and a consecutive account of all details			vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to historian=Recipient
5	lead up	future	all details			day	to some great crisis	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to crisis=Patient
6	come	to-infinitive	all details not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	account			all details				nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 34

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Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 34