Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 79
This proposal met a most hearty response and within a few days $1,785 was subscribed.
Who acts: proposal · What happens: meet, subscribe · To what, where: hearty response
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 (proposal), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 proposal | det |
| 2 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 response | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 hearty | advmod |
| 6 | hearty | hearty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 response | amod |
| 7 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 subscribed | cc |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 days | det |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 subscribed | obl |
| 13 | $ | $ | SYM | _ | 16 subscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | 1,785 | 1,785 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 $ | nummod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 subscribed | aux:pass |
| 16 | subscribed | subscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 met | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | this proposal | a hearty response | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | subscribe | past · passive | day | tree rules |
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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