Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 48
It is hoped that this will lead to a thorough survey of the whole territory by the United States Geological Survey.”
Who acts: this · What happens: hope, lead, survey · To what, where: survey, whole territory
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 (this), 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 | _ | 7 lead | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 lead | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lead | aux |
| 7 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hoped | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 survey | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 survey | det |
| 10 | thorough | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 survey | amod |
| 11 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lead | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 territory | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 territory | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 territory | amod |
| 15 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 survey | nmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 States | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 States | det |
| 18 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 States | amod |
| 19 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 lead | obl |
| 20 | Geological | Geological | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Survey | compound |
| 21 | Survey | Survey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 States | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoped | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hoped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present · passive | survey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lead | future | this | to a thorough survey of the whole territory; by the United States and Geological Survey | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to survey=Patient | ||||
| 3 | survey | the whole territory | nom survey «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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