Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 71
Mr. Goodrich, the other missionary stationed at Hilo, was almost as badly off, but was more accustomed to travelling barefoot.
Who acts: Goodrich · What happens: station, be, accustom, travel · To what, where: other missionary, Hilo, barefoot
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goodrich), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Goodrich | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Goodrich | Goodrich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 off | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 missionary | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 missionary | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 missionary | amod |
| 6 | missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Goodrich | appos |
| 7 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 missionary | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Hilo | case |
| 9 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stationed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goodrich | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 off | cop |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 15 off | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 off | advmod |
| 14 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 off | advmod |
| 15 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 accustomed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 accustomed | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 accustomed | advmod |
| 20 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 off | conj |
| 21 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 travelling | mark |
| 22 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 accustomed | advcl |
| 23 | barefoot | barefoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travelling | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 off | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | participle | the other missionary not said here | Hilo | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at hilo=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Goodrich Mr. | almost, badly, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accustom | past · passive | Goodrich Mr. not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | travel | gerund | Goodrich Mr. not said here | barefoot | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme barefoot=Trajectory |
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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