Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 41
It is hoped that eventually some work will be done by the staff of the observatory in the study of tides, soundings, earthquake waves, and the movements of the coast line of the island.
Who acts: staff · What happens: hope, do, study, move · To what, where: hereafter, work, tides, coast line
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 (staff), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hoped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hoped | aux:pass |
| 3 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 5 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 7 work | advmod |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 work | det |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hoped | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 staff | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 staff | det |
| 13 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 observatory | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 observatory | det |
| 16 | observatory | observatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 staff | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 study | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 study | det |
| 19 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 observatory | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tides | case |
| 21 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 study | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 soundings | punct |
| 23 | soundings | sounding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tides | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 waves | punct |
| 25 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waves | compound |
| 26 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tides | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 movements | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 movements | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 movements | det |
| 30 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hoped | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 line | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 line | det |
| 33 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 line | compound |
| 34 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 movements | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 island | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 island | det |
| 37 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 line | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present · passive | hereafter | the movements of the coast line of the island obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | future · passive | the staff of the observatory in the study of tides and soundings and earthquake waves | some work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | study | tides and soundings and earthquake waves | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | move | the coast line of the island | nom movement «act 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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