Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 40
To erect subordinate instrument stations, with self-recording instruments, and to employ voluntary observers, at various points hereafter to be determined.
What happens: employ, determine · To what, where: voluntary observers, points hereafter
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 stations | case |
| 2 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stations | amod |
| 3 | subordinate | subordinate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stations | compound |
| 4 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stations | compound |
| 5 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 instruments | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 instruments | case |
| 8 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recording | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 self | punct |
| 10 | recording | recording | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruments | compound |
| 11 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stations | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 employ | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 employ | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 employ | mark |
| 15 | employ | employ | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 stations | parataxis |
| 16 | voluntary | voluntary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 observers | amod |
| 17 | observers | observer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 employ | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hereafter | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 hereafter | case |
| 20 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 points | amod |
| 21 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hereafter | compound |
| 22 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 employ | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 determined | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 determined | aux:pass |
| 25 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 hereafter | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | to-infinitive | voluntary observers | points hereafter | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | determine | to-infinitive · passive | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S» |
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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