Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 54
This sum was not sufficient to do the work satisfactorily and the development of the plan was halted in consequence.
Who acts: sum · What happens: not be, do, halt, develop · To what, where: work, development, consequence, plan
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 (sum), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sufficient | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sufficient | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sufficient | advmod |
| 5 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sufficient | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | satisfactorily | satisfactorily | ADV | _ | 7 do | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 halted | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 development | det |
| 13 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 halted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 plan | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plan | det |
| 16 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 development | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 halted | aux:pass |
| 18 | halted | halt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 do | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 consequence | case |
| 20 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 halted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | this sum | sufficient property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | this sum not said here | the work | satisfactorily property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | halt | past · passive | the development of the plan | consequence | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | develop | the plan | nom development «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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