Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 6
She opened her little note-book and wrote, “Two earthquakes, one of them heavy.”
Who acts: Institute · What happens: open, write · To what, where: little note book, Two earthquakes
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 (Institute), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 book | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 book | amod |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 book | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 note | punct |
| 7 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrote | cc |
| 9 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 earthquakes | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 earthquakes | punct |
| 12 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 earthquakes | nummod |
| 13 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wrote | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 wrote | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Institute | Institute's little note book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | past | Institute not said here | Two earthquakes | one of earthquakes obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme |
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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