Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 63
This record, kept in Spain’s archives, is now accepted as marking the real discovery of the Hawaiian Islands.
What happens: keep, accept, mark, discover · To what, where: record, archives, real 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: 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 record | det |
| 2 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 record | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 archives | case |
| 6 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 archives | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Spain | case |
| 8 | archives | archive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 record | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 accepted | aux:pass |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 accepted | advmod |
| 12 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 marking | mark |
| 14 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 accepted | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 discovery | det |
| 16 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 discovery | amod |
| 17 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marking | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Islands | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Islands | det |
| 20 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Islands | compound |
| 21 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 discovery | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle | this record not said here | Spain's archives | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in archive=Location | ||||
| 2 | accept | present · passive | this record | now | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mark | gerund | the real discovery of the Hawaiian Islands | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent discovery=Destination | |||||
| 4 | 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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