Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 66
The scientific observers when speaking of lava heat usually say it is 1850° Fahrenheit.
Who acts: scientific observers, heat · What happens: speak, say, be · To what, where: 1850 · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (scientific observers, heat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 observers | det |
| 2 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 observers | amod |
| 3 | observers | observer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 say | nsubj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 speaking | advmod |
| 5 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 observers | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 heat | case |
| 7 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | compound |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speaking | obl |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 say | advmod |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 1850 | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 1850 | cop |
| 13 | 1850 | 1850 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | ° | ° | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fahrenheit | compound |
| 15 | Fahrenheit | Fahrenheit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 1850 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | of lava heat | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the scientific observers | usually property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | heat | 1850 | ° Fahrenheit nmod:unmarked | tree rules |
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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