Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 95
From the point of view of the educator, however, there is another equally vital work to be accomplished by such an experiment station as the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, namely, provision for scientific hospitality.
Who acts: vital work, experiment station · What happens: be, accomplish, point, view · To what, where: point, view, educator
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 (vital work, experiment station), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 point | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 view | case |
| 5 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 educator | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 educator | det |
| 8 | educator | educator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 view | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 point | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 13 is | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 however | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 work | det |
| 15 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 16 vital | advmod |
| 16 | vital | vital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 work | amod |
| 17 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 accomplished | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 20 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 work | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 station | case |
| 22 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 station | det:predet |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 station | det |
| 24 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 station | compound |
| 25 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 accomplished | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Observatory | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Observatory | det |
| 28 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Observatory | compound |
| 29 | Volcano | Volcano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Observatory | compound |
| 30 | Observatory | Observatory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 accomplished | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 namely | punct |
| 32 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Observatory | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 provision | punct |
| 34 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Observatory | appos |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 hospitality | case |
| 36 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hospitality | amod |
| 37 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 provision | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | another vital work | the point of view of the educator; there | however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | accomplish | to-infinitive · passive | such experiment station | as the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | point | view of the educator | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | view | the educator | nom view «cognition 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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