Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 33
Professor Jaggar says: “It has long been known that the crust of our rocky globe rises and falls with a tide similar to that of the ocean.
Who acts: Professor, crust · What happens: say, know, rise, fall · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Professor, crust), 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 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | Jaggar | Jaggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Professor | flat |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 known | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 known | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | aux |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 known | advmod |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 says | ccomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 rises | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crust | det |
| 13 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rises | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 globe | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 globe | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 globe | amod |
| 17 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crust | nmod |
| 18 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 known | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 falls | cc |
| 20 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rises | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tide | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tide | det |
| 23 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 falls | obl |
| 24 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tide | amod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 that | case |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 similar | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ocean | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ocean | det |
| 29 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 that | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Professor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · perfect · passive | place | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rise in a quote | present | the crust of our rocky globe | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall in a quote | present | the crust of our rocky globe not said here | with a tide | vn occur-48.3 «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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