Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 5
The purpose of the science of geophysics is to investigate all the physical and chemical processes going on in the earth.
Who acts: purpose, physical processes, science · What happens: be, go on, purpose · To what, where: earth
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 (purpose, physical processes, science), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 purpose | det |
| 2 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 investigate | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 science | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 science | det |
| 5 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purpose | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 geophysics | case |
| 7 | geophysics | geophysics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 science | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 investigate | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 investigate | mark |
| 10 | investigate | investigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 processes | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 processes | det |
| 13 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 processes | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 chemical | cc |
| 15 | chemical | chemical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 physical | conj |
| 16 | processes | process | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 investigate | obj |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 processes | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 going | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 going | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 investigate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the purpose of the science of geophysics | all physical processes obj; investigate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go on | gerund | all physical processes not said here | the earth | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in earth=Location | ||||
| 3 | purpose | the science of geophysics | nom purpose «cognition 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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