Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 67
History seldom records the long list of failures among men.
Who acts: History · What happens: record, list · To what, where: long list, failures
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (History), 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 | History | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | nsubj |
| 2 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 3 records | advmod |
| 3 | records | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 list | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 list | amod |
| 6 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 records | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 failures | case |
| 8 | failures | failure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 list | nmod |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 failures | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 records | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present | History | the long list of failures among men | seldom property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | |||
| 2 | list | failures among men | nom list «communication 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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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