Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 9
In 1901 the United States survey ship “Nero,” while studying out a route for a cable line to the Philippines, made a sounding some distance to the southeast of the island of Guam of 31,596 feet, which beat the world’s record for sea depth up to that time.
Who acts: United States, 31,596 feet, world · What happens: survey, study out, make, sound, beat up, record · To what, where: ship, 1901, route, sounding distance, record
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (United States, 31,596 feet, world), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1901 | case |
| 2 | 1901 | 1901 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 survey | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 States | det |
| 4 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 States | amod |
| 5 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 survey | nsubj |
| 6 | survey | survey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 survey | obj |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nero | punct |
| 9 | Nero | Nero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 survey | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nero | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nero | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 studying | mark |
| 13 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 survey | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 studying | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 route | det |
| 16 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 studying | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 line | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 line | det |
| 19 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 line | compound |
| 20 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 studying | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Philippines | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Philippines | det |
| 23 | Philippines | Philippines | PROPN | Number=Ptan | 20 line | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 survey | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 distance | det |
| 27 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 distance | amod |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 distance | det |
| 29 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 southeast | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 southeast | det |
| 32 | southeast | southeast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 distance | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 island | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 island | det |
| 35 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 southeast | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Guam | case |
| 37 | Guam | Guam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 island | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 feet | case |
| 39 | 31,596 | 31,596 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 40 feet | nummod |
| 40 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 island | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 beat | punct |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 beat | nsubj |
| 43 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 feet | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 world | det |
| 45 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 record | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 world | case |
| 47 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 beat | obj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 depth | case |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 depth | compound |
| 50 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 record | nmod |
| 51 | up | up | ADP | _ | 43 beat | compound:prt |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 time | case |
| 53 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 time | det |
| 54 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 beat | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 survey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survey | present | the United States | ship | 1901 | Nero parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | study out | gerund | the United States not said here | a route | for a cable line to the Philippines | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent route=Theme for line=Attribute | |||
| 3 | make | past | a sounding distance | to the southeast of the island of Guam of 31,596 feet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset distance=Product | ||||
| 4 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | beat up | past | 31,596 feet | the world's record | time | for sea depth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location record=Theme | ||
| 6 | record | the world | for sea depth | nom record «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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