Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 49
He added that the main object of all the work should be humanitarian—earthquake prediction and methods of protecting life and property on the basis of sound scientific achievement.
Who acts: work, main object, methods · What happens: add, be, protect · To what, where: life, basis · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (work, main object, methods), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 added | nsubj |
| 2 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 humanitarian | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 object | det |
| 5 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 object | amod |
| 6 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 humanitarian | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 work | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 object | nmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 humanitarian | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 humanitarian | cop |
| 13 | humanitarian | humanitarian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 added | ccomp |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 prediction | punct |
| 15 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prediction | compound |
| 16 | prediction | prediction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 humanitarian | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 methods | cc |
| 18 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prediction | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 protecting | mark |
| 20 | protecting | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 methods | acl |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protecting | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 property | cc |
| 23 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 life | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 basis | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 basis | det |
| 26 | basis | basis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protecting | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 achievement | case |
| 28 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 achievement | compound |
| 29 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 achievement | amod |
| 30 | achievement | achievement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 basis | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | work | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | should | the main object of all work | earthquake prediction and methods conj; humanitarian property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | protect | gerund | methods not said here | life and property | the basis of sound scientific achievement | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary |
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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