Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 3
The work has been concerned with geodesy, astronomy, magnetism, and geology, and has been partly under the direction of officers of the Department of Civil Engineering and partly under professors of geology.
What happens: concern, be · To what, where: work, direction
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 work | det |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concerned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 concerned | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 concerned | aux:pass |
| 5 | concerned | concern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 geodesy | case |
| 7 | geodesy | geodesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concerned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 astronomy | punct |
| 9 | astronomy | astronomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 geodesy | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 magnetism | punct |
| 11 | magnetism | magnetism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 geodesy | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 geology | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 geology | cc |
| 14 | geology | geology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 geodesy | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 direction | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 direction | cc |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 direction | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 direction | cop |
| 19 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 22 direction | advmod |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 direction | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 direction | det |
| 22 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concerned | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 officers | case |
| 24 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 direction | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Department | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Department | det |
| 27 | Department | Department | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 officers | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Engineering | case |
| 29 | Civil | Civil | PROPN | _ | 30 Engineering | flat |
| 30 | Engineering | Engineering | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Department | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 professors | cc |
| 32 | partly | partly | ADV | _ | 34 professors | advmod |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 professors | case |
| 34 | professors | professor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Department | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 geology | case |
| 36 | geology | geology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 professors | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 concerned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern | present · perfect · passive | the work | with geodesy and magnetism and geology | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect | the direction | of officers of the Department of Civil Engineering and professors of geology; partly property | tree rules |
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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