Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 91
B. Dodge of Honolulu arrived at the volcano to become assistant to the director and during the ensuing weeks arrangements were completed and trigonometric stations installed whereby a daily survey of the active lava pool could be made.
Who acts: Dodge · What happens: arrive, become, ensue, complete, install, make · To what, where: volcano, arrangements, trigonometric stations, daily survey, active lava pool
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 (Dodge), 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 | B. | b. | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
| 2 | Dodge | Dodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Honolulu | case |
| 4 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dodge | nmod |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 volcano | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 volcano | det |
| 8 | volcano | volcano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 become | mark |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 11 | assistant | assistant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 become | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 director | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 director | det |
| 14 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assistant | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 completed | cc |
| 16 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 weeks | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 weeks | det |
| 18 | ensuing | ensue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 weeks | amod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 completed | obl |
| 20 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 completed | aux:pass |
| 22 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 assistant | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stations | cc |
| 24 | trigonometric | trigonometric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stations | amod |
| 25 | stations | station | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 completed | conj |
| 26 | installed | install | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 stations | acl |
| 27 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 made | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 survey | det |
| 29 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 survey | amod |
| 30 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 made | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pool | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 pool | det |
| 33 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pool | amod |
| 34 | lava | lava | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pool | compound |
| 35 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 survey | nmod |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 made | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 made | aux:pass |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 installed | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Dodge of Honolulu | the volcano | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | to-infinitive | Dodge of Honolulu not said here | assistant property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ensue | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | complete | past · passive | arrangements | week | trigonometric stations conj | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | install | participle | trigonometric stations not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | could · passive | a daily survey of the active lava pool | whereby property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 7 | survey | the active lava pool | nom survey «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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