Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 92
Mrs. Lyman has the record of a terrible tidal wave which struck Hilo harbor in May of that same year: “1877, May 10.
Who acts: Mrs., terrible tidal wave · What happens: have, strike, record · To what, where: record, Hilo harbor, terrible tidal wave
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., terrible tidal wave), 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 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 2 | Lyman | Lyman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs. | flat |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 record | det |
| 5 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wave | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wave | det |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wave | amod |
| 9 | tidal | tidal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wave | amod |
| 10 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 record | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wave | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 harbor | compound |
| 14 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 May | case |
| 16 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 year | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 year | amod |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 May | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 1877 | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 1877 | punct |
| 23 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 has | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 10 | punct |
| 25 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 1877 | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Mrs. | the record of a terrible tidal wave | 1877 parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | strike | past | a terrible tidal wave | Hilo harbor | may | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbor=Patient | |||
| 3 | record | a terrible tidal wave | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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