Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 7
She had a little curiosity to see how frequently these earthquakes disturbed her home.
Who acts: Institute, earthquakes · What happens: have, see, disturb · To what, where: little curiosity, home
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, earthquakes), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 curiosity | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 curiosity | amod |
| 5 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | advcl |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 frequently | advmod |
| 9 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 disturbed | advmod |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 earthquakes | det |
| 11 | earthquakes | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 disturbed | nsubj |
| 12 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disturbed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Institute | a little curiosity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Institute not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | disturb | past | this earthquakes | Institute's home | frequently property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus home=Experiencer |
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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