Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 84
In front there is a concrete post for geodetic and photographic experiments.
Who acts: concrete post · What happens: be · To what, where: front
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 (concrete post), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 front | case |
| 2 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 post | det |
| 6 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 post | compound |
| 7 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 experiments | case |
| 9 | geodetic | geodetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 experiments | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 photographic | cc |
| 11 | photographic | photographic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 geodetic | conj |
| 12 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 post | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a concrete post for geodetic experiments | front; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
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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