Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 1
In a little note-book in Hilo is a record which from time to time has been studied and copied frequently by visiting scientists.
Who acts: Hilo · What happens: be, study, copy, visit · To what, where: record, scientists, little note book
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hilo), 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 | _ | 6 book | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 book | amod |
| 4 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 note | punct |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 record | case |
| 8 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 record | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 record | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 record | det |
| 11 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 book | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 studied | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 studied | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 studied | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 studied | aux:pass |
| 19 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 record | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 copied | cc |
| 21 | copied | copy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 studied | conj |
| 22 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 21 copied | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 visiting | mark |
| 24 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 copied | advcl |
| 25 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 visiting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 book | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hilo | a record | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | study | present · perfect · passive | a record | time | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: which=Topic | ||||
| 3 | copy | participle | frequently property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | visit | gerund | scientists | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scientist=Co-Agent |
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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