Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 8
Professor Jaggar had, for some time past, been investigating and considering this subject.
Who acts: Professor · What happens: have, investigate, consider · To what, where: time past, subject
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 (Professor), 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 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | Jaggar | Jaggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Professor | flat |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 past | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 past | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 past | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 past | compound |
| 8 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 investigating | punct |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 investigating | aux |
| 11 | investigating | investigate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 past | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 considering | cc |
| 13 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 investigating | conj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 subject | det |
| 15 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 considering | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Professor | some time past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Patient | ||||
| 2 | investigate | participle · progressive | Professor not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | consider | gerund | Professor not said here | this subject | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=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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