Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 25

Mr. H. M. Whitney, editor of the Advertiser, says that “the number of shocks which occurred at Waiohinu from March 29 to April 10 was estimated at upwards of two thousand.

Who acts: H., shocks · What happens: say, occur, estimate · To what, where: Waiohinu, number, upwards · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (H., shocks), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 H.	nmod:desc
2	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
3	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 H.	flat
4	Whitney	Whitney	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 H.	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 editor	punct
6	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 H.	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Advertiser	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Advertiser	det
9	Advertiser	Advertiser	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 editor	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 H.	punct
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 estimated	mark
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 number	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 number	det
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 estimated	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 shocks	case
17	shocks	shock	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 occurred	nsubj
19	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shocks	acl:relcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Waiohinu	case
21	Waiohinu	Waiohinu	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 occurred	obl
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 March	case
23	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 occurred	obl
24	29	29	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 March	nmod:unmarked
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 10	case
26	April	April	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 10	nmod:unmarked
27	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 occurred	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 estimated	aux:pass
29	estimated	estimate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 says	ccomp
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 upwards	case
31	upwards	upward	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 estimated	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 thousand	case
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 thousand	compound
34	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 upwards	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	H. Mr.					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	occur in a quote	past	shocks		Waiohinu	march	to 10 April	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at waiohinu=Location
3	estimate in a quote	past · passive		the number of shocks	upwards of two thousand			vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Attribute at upward=Value

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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🌲 Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 25