Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 66
A. Perret of Springfield, Mass., and Naples, Italy, to take Professor Jaggar’s place in an expedition to Kilauea for the measurement of temperatures as agreed with the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory.
Who acts: Naples · What happens: take, agree, measure · To what, where: place, expedition, A. Perret, temperatures
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 (Naples), 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 | A. | A. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Perret | compound |
| 2 | Perret | Perret | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Springfield | case |
| 4 | Springfield | Springfield | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Perret | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mass | punct |
| 6 | Mass | Mass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Perret | conj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perret | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 10 | Naples | Naples | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 take | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Italy | punct |
| 12 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Naples | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Perret | parataxis |
| 16 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Jaggar | Jaggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Professor | flat |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Professor | case |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 expedition | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 expedition | det |
| 22 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Kilauea | case |
| 24 | Kilauea | Kilauea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 expedition | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 measurement | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 measurement | det |
| 27 | measurement | measurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 expedition | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 temperatures | case |
| 29 | temperatures | temperature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 measurement | nmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 agreed | mark |
| 31 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 take | advcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Laboratory | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Laboratory | det |
| 34 | Carnegie | Carnegie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Laboratory | compound |
| 35 | Geophysical | Geophysical | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Laboratory | compound |
| 36 | Laboratory | Laboratory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 agreed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Perret | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | Naples and Italy | Professor's place | a expedition to Kilauea for the measurement of temperatures | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in expedition=Location | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | Naples and Italy not said here | with the Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with laboratory=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | measure | temperatures | nom measurement «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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