Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 77
The Institute was prepared to co-operate with the Hawaiian Volcano Research Association by becoming its largest subscriber for the five years, through the income of the Whitney fund and the current payment to its Seismological fund.
Who acts: treasurer · What happens: prepare, co-operate, become, fund · To what, where: Institute, largest subscriber
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 (treasurer), 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 | 2 Institute | det |
| 2 | Institute | Institute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | aux:pass |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 co-operate | mark |
| 6 | co-operate | co-operate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 prepared | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Association | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Association | det |
| 9 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Volcano | compound |
| 10 | Volcano | Volcano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Association | compound |
| 11 | Research | Research | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Association | compound |
| 12 | Association | Association | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 co-operate | obl |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 becoming | mark |
| 14 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 co-operate | advcl |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 subscriber | nmod:poss |
| 16 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 subscriber | amod |
| 17 | subscriber | subscriber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 becoming | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 years | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 years | det |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 becoming | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 income | punct |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 25 income | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 income | det |
| 25 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 fund | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fund | det |
| 28 | Whitney | Whitney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 fund | compound |
| 29 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 income | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 payment | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 payment | det |
| 32 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 payment | amod |
| 33 | payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fund | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 fund | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 fund | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Seismological | seismological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 fund | amod |
| 37 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 payment | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · passive | the Institute | the income of the Whitney fund and the current payment to treasurer's Seismological fund conj | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | co-operate not said to happen | to-infinitive | with the Volcano Research Association | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | become | gerund | treasurer's largest subscriber | year | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fund | treasurer | nom fund «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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