Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 89
The piers for seismographs were designed for a set of instruments built in Tokyo in 1910 under the direction of Professor Omori and purchased with the income of the Whitney fund.
What happens: design, build, purchase · To what, where: piers, instruments
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: 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 piers | det |
| 2 | piers | pier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 designed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 seismographs | case |
| 4 | seismographs | seismograph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 piers | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 designed | aux:pass |
| 6 | designed | design | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 set | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 set | det |
| 9 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 designed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instruments | case |
| 11 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nmod |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 instruments | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Tokyo | case |
| 14 | Tokyo | Tokyo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1910 | case |
| 16 | 1910 | 1910 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 built | obl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 direction | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 direction | det |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Professor | case |
| 21 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 direction | nmod |
| 22 | Omori | Omori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Professor | flat |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 purchased | cc |
| 24 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 designed | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 income | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 income | det |
| 27 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 purchased | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 fund | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fund | det |
| 30 | Whitney | Whitney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 fund | compound |
| 31 | fund | fund | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 income | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 designed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | design | past · passive | the piers for seismographs | for a set of instruments | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for set=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | instruments not said here | in 1910; under the direction of Professor; in Tokyo | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tokyo=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | purchase | participle | with the income of the Whitney fund | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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