Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 92
The Territorial Government loaned the services of a part of the prison gang which does the road work for the Territory of Hawaii, to clear the land, dig the cellar, and build the roadway of the Observatory.
Who acts: Territorial Government, prison gang · What happens: loan, do, clear, dig, build, service · To what, where: services, road work, land, cellar, roadway, part
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 (Territorial Government, prison gang), 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 Government | det |
| 2 | Territorial | territorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Government | amod |
| 3 | Government | Government | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 loaned | nsubj |
| 4 | loaned | loan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 services | det |
| 6 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loaned | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 services | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gang | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gang | det |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gang | compound |
| 13 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 does | nsubj |
| 15 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gang | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | compound |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 does | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Territory | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Territory | det |
| 21 | Territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Hawaii | case |
| 23 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Territory | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clear | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 clear | mark |
| 26 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loaned | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 land | det |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clear | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dig | punct |
| 30 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 clear | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cellar | det |
| 32 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dig | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 build | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 build | cc |
| 35 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loaned | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 roadway | det |
| 37 | roadway | roadway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 build | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Observatory | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Observatory | det |
| 40 | Observatory | Observatory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 roadway | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loan | past | the Territorial Government | the services of a part of the prison gang | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | the prison gang | the road work | for the Territory of Hawaii | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | clear | to-infinitive | the land | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent land=Source | |||||
| 4 | dig | infinitive | the cellar | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cellar=Theme | |||||
| 5 | build | present | the Territorial Government not said here | the roadway of the Observatory | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roadway=Product | ||||
| 6 | service | a part of the prison gang | nom service «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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