Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 28
There seems to be scarcely a trace of the Spanish language or of the Christian religion as practiced by the Spaniards.
What happens: seem, be, practice · To what, where: trace
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 seems | expl |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trace | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trace | cop |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 trace | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trace | det |
| 7 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 language | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 language | det |
| 10 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 language | amod |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 trace | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 religion | cc |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 religion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 religion | det |
| 15 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 religion | amod |
| 16 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 language | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 practiced | mark |
| 18 | practiced | practice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seems | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Spaniards | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Spaniards | det |
| 21 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 practiced | obl:agent |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | there | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a trace | of the Spanish language or the Christian religion; scarcely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | practice | participle | the Spaniards obl:agent | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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