Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 53
Isabella Bird Bishop, author of “Six Months in the Sandwich Islands,” visited this active crater in 1874, and wrote about the crater itself.
Who acts: Isabella Bird Bishop · What happens: visit, write · To what, where: active crater, 1874
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 (Isabella Bird Bishop), 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 | Isabella | Isabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bishop | compound |
| 2 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Bishop | compound |
| 3 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 visited | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 author | punct |
| 5 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Bishop | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Months | case |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Months | punct |
| 8 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Months | nummod |
| 9 | Months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 author | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Islands | det |
| 12 | Sandwich | Sandwich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | compound |
| 13 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Months | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bishop | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bishop | punct |
| 16 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 crater | det |
| 18 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 crater | amod |
| 19 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visited | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 1874 | case |
| 21 | 1874 | 1874 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 visited | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrote | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wrote | cc |
| 24 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 visited | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 crater | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 crater | det |
| 27 | crater | crater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wrote | obl |
| 28 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 27 crater | nmod:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Isabella Bird Bishop | this active crater | 1874 | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crater=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | write | past | Isabella Bird Bishop not said here | about the crater crater | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about crater=Topic |
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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