Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 33
To erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea, in which to house the instruments, library, and offices for working up and tabulating the statistics, records, and information obtained.
Who acts: offices · What happens: work up, tabulate, obtain · To what, where: statistics, erect buildings
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: who acts (offices), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 buildings | mark |
| 2 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 buildings | amod |
| 3 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 brink | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brink | det |
| 6 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buildings | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Volcano | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Volcano | det |
| 9 | Volcano | Volcano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brink | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kilauea | case |
| 11 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Volcano | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 house | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 house | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 house | mark |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buildings | appos |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 instruments | det |
| 18 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 house | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 library | punct |
| 20 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 instruments | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 offices | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 offices | cc |
| 23 | offices | office | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buildings | conj |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 working | mark |
| 25 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 offices | acl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 working | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 tabulating | cc |
| 28 | tabulating | tabulate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 working | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 statistics | det |
| 30 | statistics | statistic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tabulating | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 records | punct |
| 32 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 statistics | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 obtained | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 obtained | cc |
| 35 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work up | gerund | offices not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tabulate | gerund | offices not said here | the statistics and records | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent statistic=Patient | ||||
| 3 | obtain | participle · passive | erect buildings on the brink of the Volcano of Kilauea and offices | information nsubj:pass | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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