Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 9
At one time the record ran: “Frequent jars, severe, so many I have ceased to count.”
Who acts: record · What happens: run, cease, count · To what, where: Frequent jars, many
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 (record), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 record | det |
| 5 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 jars | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 jars | punct |
| 9 | Frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jars | amod |
| 10 | jars | jar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 severe | punct |
| 12 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jars | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ceased | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 many | advmod |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ceased | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ceased | aux |
| 18 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ran | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 count | mark |
| 20 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ceased | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the record | Frequent jars | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jar=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cease in a quote | present · perfect · passive | many | I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | count in a quote | to-infinitive | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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