Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 6
Recent disasters such as Messina and San Francisco have shown how defective, for humane and practical purposes, our knowledge of these processes is.
Who acts: Recent disasters · What happens: be
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 (Recent disasters), 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 | Recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 disasters | amod |
| 2 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shown | nsubj |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 Messina | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | Messina | Messina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 disasters | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 San | cc |
| 7 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Messina | conj |
| 8 | Francisco | Francisco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 San | flat |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shown | aux |
| 10 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 defective | advmod |
| 12 | defective | defective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shown | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 purposes | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 purposes | case |
| 15 | humane | humane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 purposes | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 practical | cc |
| 17 | practical | practical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 humane | conj |
| 18 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shown | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowledge | punct |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 21 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 purposes | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 processes | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 processes | det |
| 24 | processes | process | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 knowledge | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shown | cop |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Recent disasters such Messina and San | for humane purposes and our knowledge of this processes; defective, show property | tree rules |
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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