Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 51
In pursuit of these ideas, Professor Jaggar proceeded to enlist support from the Chamber of Commerce and the leading citizens of Honolulu.
Who acts: Professor · What happens: proceed, enlist, lead, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, support, Chamber, ideas
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 (Professor), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 pursuit | case |
| 2 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proceeded | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ideas | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 ideas | det |
| 5 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pursuit | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pursuit | punct |
| 7 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 proceeded | nsubj |
| 8 | Jaggar | Jaggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Professor | flat |
| 9 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 enlist | mark |
| 11 | enlist | enlist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 proceeded | xcomp |
| 12 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enlist | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Chamber | det |
| 15 | Chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enlist | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Commerce | case |
| 17 | Commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Chamber | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 citizens | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 citizens | det |
| 20 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 citizens | amod |
| 21 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Chamber | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Honolulu | case |
| 23 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 citizens | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | Professor | pursuit of this ideas | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | enlist | to-infinitive | Professor not said here | support | the Chamber of Commerce and the leading citizens of Honolulu | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Theme | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 4 | pursue | this ideas | nom pursuit «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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