Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 34
From direct experiment professors of Chicago University have recently proved a tidal movement in the solid earth up and down of about a foot twice each day, and varying in amount through the lunar month and the solar year.
What happens: prove, vary · To what, where: tidal movement, solid earth, amount
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 professors | case |
| 2 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 professors | amod |
| 3 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 professors | compound |
| 4 | professors | professor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 proved | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 University | case |
| 6 | Chicago | Chicago | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 University | compound |
| 7 | University | University | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 professors | nmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 proved | aux |
| 9 | recently | recently | ADV | _ | 10 proved | advmod |
| 10 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 movement | det |
| 12 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 movement | amod |
| 13 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proved | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 16 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 earth | amod |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proved | obl |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 down | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 down | cc |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 proved | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 foot | case |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 foot | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 foot | det |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 down | obl |
| 25 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 foot | advmod |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 twice | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 varying | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 varying | cc |
| 30 | varying | vary | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 proved | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 amount | case |
| 32 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 varying | obl |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 month | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 month | det |
| 35 | lunar | lunar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 month | amod |
| 36 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 varying | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 year | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 year | det |
| 39 | solar | solar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 year | amod |
| 40 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 month | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present · perfect | a tidal movement | the solid earth | from direct experiment professors of Chicago University; down, recently property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent movement=Theme from professor=Source | |||
| 2 | vary | gerund | amount | month | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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