Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 86
The Whitney Laboratory of Seismology, eighteen feet square, is a basement room of concrete floored on the solid ledge of basalt.
Who acts: Whitney Laboratory · What happens: be, floor · To what, where: basement room, solid ledge
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 (Whitney Laboratory), 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 Laboratory | det |
| 2 | Whitney | Whitney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Laboratory | compound |
| 3 | Laboratory | Laboratory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 room | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Seismology | case |
| 5 | Seismology | seismology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Laboratory | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feet | punct |
| 7 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feet | nummod |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 square | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Seismology | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Laboratory | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 room | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 13 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | compound |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 concrete | case |
| 16 | concrete | concrete | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 room | nmod |
| 17 | floored | floor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 room | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ledge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ledge | det |
| 20 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ledge | amod |
| 21 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floored | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 basalt | case |
| 23 | basalt | basalt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ledge | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 room | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Whitney Laboratory of Seismology | a basement room | of concrete | tree rules | |||
| 2 | floor | participle | a basement room not said here | the solid ledge of basalt | 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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