Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 97
Dana says: “A destructive earthquake wave was felt at the Hawaiian Islands on May 10, 1877, which rose at Hilo to a height of 36 feet.
Who acts: Dana · What happens: say, feel, rise · To what, where: destructive earthquake wave, Hawaiian Islands, Hilo · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dana), 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 | Dana | Dana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wave | det |
| 6 | destructive | destructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wave | amod |
| 7 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wave | compound |
| 8 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | aux:pass |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 says | ccomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Islands | det |
| 13 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Islands | compound |
| 14 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 felt | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 10 | case |
| 16 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 felt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1877 | punct |
| 19 | 1877 | 1877 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 10 | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rose | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 rose | nsubj |
| 22 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Hilo | case |
| 24 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 height | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 height | det |
| 27 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rose | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 feet | case |
| 29 | 36 | 36 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 feet | nummod |
| 30 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 height | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Dana | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | past · passive | a destructive earthquake wave | the Hawaiian Islands | on 10 May | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at island=Location | |||
| 3 | rise in a quote | past | Hilo | to a height of 36 feet; which nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hilo=Location |
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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