Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 53
This is the first known record of the islands among the civilised nations.
Who acts: This · What happens: know, be, civilise · To what, where: first known record
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 record | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 record | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 record | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 record | amod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 record | amod |
| 6 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 islands | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 islands | det |
| 9 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 record | nmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 nations | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nations | det |
| 12 | civilised | civilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 nations | amod |
| 13 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 islands | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 record | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | This | the first known record | of the islands among the civilised nations | tree rules | |||
| 3 | civilise | participle | tree rules |
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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