Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 4
In 1832 Mrs. Sarah J. Lyman came to Hilo, where her husband founded the Hilo Boys’ Boarding School, a school, by the way, after which the great Hampton Institute of Virginia was patterned.
Who acts: Mrs., husband · What happens: come, found, pattern · To what, where: Hilo, 1832, Hilo Boys, great Hampton Institute
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 (Mrs., husband), 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 1832 | case |
| 2 | 1832 | 1832 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 came | obl |
| 3 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 4 | Sarah | Sarah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mrs. | flat |
| 5 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mrs. | flat |
| 6 | Lyman | Lyman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 J. | flat |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Hilo | case |
| 9 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 founded | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 founded | advmod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 founded | nsubj |
| 14 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Boys | det |
| 16 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Boys | compound |
| 17 | Boys | Boy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 founded | obj |
| 18 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 20 School | case |
| 19 | Boarding | Boarding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 School | compound |
| 20 | School | School | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 founded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 school | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 school | det |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 School | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 way | punct |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 way | det |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 founded | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 patterned | punct |
| 29 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 which | case |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 patterned | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Institute | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Institute | amod |
| 33 | Hampton | Hampton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Institute | compound |
| 34 | Institute | Institute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 patterned | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Virginia | case |
| 36 | Virginia | Virginia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Institute | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 patterned | aux:pass |
| 38 | patterned | pattern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 way | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mrs. | Hilo | 1832 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hilo=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | found | past | Mrs.'s husband | the Hilo Boys | ' Boarding School; the way parataxis | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient | |||
| 3 | pattern | past · passive | the great Hampton Institute of Virginia | after the way | 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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