Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 56
In 1911 the first successful attempt to secure the temperature of the boiling lava in the lake of fire was made scientifically.
What happens: secure, make · To what, where: temperature, lake, first successful attempt, 1911
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1911 | case |
| 2 | 1911 | 1911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 made | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attempt | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 attempt | amod |
| 5 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 attempt | amod |
| 6 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 secure | mark |
| 8 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 attempt | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 temperature | det |
| 10 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secure | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lava | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lava | det |
| 13 | boiling | boiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lava | compound |
| 14 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 temperature | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secure | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lake | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | scientifically | scientifically | ADV | _ | 21 made | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | to-infinitive | the temperature of the boiling lava | the lake of fire | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition temperature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the first successful attempt | 1911 | scientifically property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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