Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 61
Some of these were broken before registration could be secured.
What happens: break, secure · To what, where: Some, registration
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 broken | aux:pass |
| 5 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 secured | mark |
| 7 | registration | registration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 secured | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 secured | aux:pass |
| 10 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 broken | advcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | Some of these | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | secure | could · passive | registration | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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