Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 36

This scientific study of active craters is still in its infancy and promises, as Professor Jaggar says, “to create a new science in which we may hope at some not distant day to predict the periods of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.”

Who acts: scientific study, Professor, we · What happens: be, say, create, hope, predict, study · To what, where: infancy, new science, periods, active craters · 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 (scientific study, Professor, we), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 study	det
2	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 study	amod
3	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 infancy	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 craters	case
5	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 craters	amod
6	craters	crater	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 study	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 infancy	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 infancy	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 infancy	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 infancy	nmod:poss
11	infancy	infancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promises	cc
13	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 infancy	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 says	mark
16	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 says	nsubj
17	Jaggar	Jaggar	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Professor	flat
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 infancy	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 create	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 create	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 create	mark
22	create	create	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 science	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 science	amod
25	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 create	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 hope	obl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 hope	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 hope	aux
30	hope	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 science	acl:relcl
31	at	at	ADP	_	35 day	case
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	35 day	det
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 distant	advmod
34	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 day	amod
35	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hope	obl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 predict	mark
37	predict	predict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 hope	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 periods	det
39	periods	period	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 predict	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 eruptions	case
41	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 eruptions	amod
42	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 periods	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 earthquakes	cc
44	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 eruptions	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 infancy	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 infancy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this scientific study of active craters		study's infancy and promises	still	study nmod:poss; promises conj	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	Professor					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	create in a quote	to-infinitive		a new science				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent science=Result
4	hope in a quote	may	we		a new science	day		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	predict in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the periods of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes				vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot period=Topic
6	study			active craters				nom study «act 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), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 36