Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 75
The committee representative of this association determined to name the organization “Hawaiian Volcano Research Association.”
Who acts: committee representative · What happens: determine, name · To what, where: organization
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 (committee representative), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 representative | det |
| 2 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 representative | compound |
| 3 | representative | representative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 association | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 association | det |
| 6 | association | association | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 representative | nmod |
| 7 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 name | mark |
| 9 | name | name | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 determined | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 organization | det |
| 11 | organization | organization | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 name | obj |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Association | punct |
| 13 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Volcano | compound |
| 14 | Volcano | Volcano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Association | compound |
| 15 | Research | Research | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Association | compound |
| 16 | Association | Association | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 name | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Association | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Association | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | the committee representative of this association | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | name | to-infinitive | the committee representative of this association not said here | the organization | Volcano Research Association obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent organization=Theme association=Attribute |
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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