Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 52
There are undoubted proofs of the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands in 1555 by the Spaniard, Juan Gaetano.
Who acts: Spaniard · What happens: undoubt, proof, discover · To what, where: proofs, 1555, discovery, Hawaiian Islands
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: who acts (Spaniard), 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 | 3 undoubted | expl |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 undoubted | aux:pass |
| 3 | undoubted | undoubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | proofs | proof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 undoubted | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 discovery | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 discovery | det |
| 7 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proofs | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Islands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Islands | det |
| 10 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | compound |
| 11 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 discovery | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 1555 | case |
| 13 | 1555 | 1555 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 undoubted | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Spaniard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Spaniard | det |
| 16 | Spaniard | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 undoubted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gaetano | punct |
| 18 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gaetano | compound |
| 19 | Gaetano | Gaetano | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Spaniard | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undoubted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undoubt | present · passive | the Spaniard and Juan Gaetano | proofs of the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands | 1555; there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | proof | the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | discover | the Hawaiian Islands | nom discovery «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 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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