Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 45
To carry on research, as may seem expedient, in terrestrial gravitation, magnetism, and variation of latitude.
Who acts: latitude · What happens: carry, seem, vary · To what, where: research, expedient, terrestrial gravitation
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 (latitude), 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 | _ | 2 carry | mark |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 research | case |
| 4 | research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seem | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 seem | mark |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 seem | aux |
| 8 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 carry | conj |
| 9 | expedient | expedient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seem | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gravitation | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 gravitation | case |
| 12 | terrestrial | terrestrial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gravitation | amod |
| 13 | gravitation | gravitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seem | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 magnetism | punct |
| 15 | magnetism | magnetism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gravitation | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 variation | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 variation | cc |
| 18 | variation | variation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gravitation | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 latitude | case |
| 20 | latitude | latitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 variation | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | to-infinitive | research | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seem | may | expedient | terrestrial gravitation and magnetism and variation of latitude | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme expedient=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | vary | latitude | nom variation «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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