Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 71
That institution was materially aided in the conduct of this work by voluntary subscription among citizens of Honolulu.
Who acts: voluntary subscription · What happens: aid, conduct · To what, where: institution, conduct, work
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 (voluntary subscription), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 institution | det |
| 2 | institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aided | aux:pass |
| 4 | materially | materially | ADV | _ | 5 aided | advmod |
| 5 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 conduct | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 conduct | det |
| 8 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aided | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conduct | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 subscription | case |
| 13 | voluntary | voluntary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 subscription | amod |
| 14 | subscription | subscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aided | obl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 citizens | case |
| 16 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 aided | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Honolulu | case |
| 18 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 citizens | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | past · passive | voluntary subscription | that institution | the conduct of this work | among citizens of Honolulu; materially property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | conduct | this work | nom conduct «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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