Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 63
With the aid of Institute engineers a cableway was designed for spanning the inner pit of Halemaumau wherewith by a wire trolley system pyrometric apparatus might be lowered into the lava.
Who acts: system pyrometric apparatus · What happens: design, span, lower · To what, where: cableway, inner pit, lava
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 (system pyrometric apparatus), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 aid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aid | det |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 designed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 engineers | case |
| 5 | Institute | Institute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 engineers | compound |
| 6 | engineers | engineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 aid | nmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cableway | det |
| 8 | cableway | cableway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 designed | aux:pass |
| 10 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 spanning | mark |
| 12 | spanning | span | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 designed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pit | det |
| 14 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pit | amod |
| 15 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spanning | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Halemaumau | case |
| 17 | Halemaumau | Halemaumau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pit | nmod |
| 18 | wherewith | wherewith | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 lowered | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 apparatus | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 apparatus | det |
| 21 | wire | wire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trolley | compound |
| 22 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 system | compound |
| 23 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 apparatus | compound |
| 24 | pyrometric | pyrometric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 apparatus | amod |
| 25 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lowered | obl |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lowered | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 lowered | aux:pass |
| 28 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 spanning | advcl |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 lava | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lava | det |
| 31 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lowered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · passive | a cableway | with the aid of Institute engineers | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | span | gerund | the inner pit of Halemaumau | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pit=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | lower | might · passive | a system pyrometric apparatus | the lava | wherewith property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into lava=Destination |
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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