Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 64
Meanwhile, the Hawaiians were as completely ignorant of the rest of the world as if no civilised eyes had ever seen their mountains.
Who acts: Hawaiians · What happens: be, civilise, see · To what, where: civilised eyes
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 (Hawaiians), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 8 ignorant | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hawaiians | det |
| 4 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 ignorant | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ignorant | cop |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 ignorant | mark |
| 7 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 8 ignorant | advmod |
| 8 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rest | det |
| 11 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ignorant | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rest | nmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 eyes | det |
| 18 | civilised | civilise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 seen | advmod |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ignorant | advcl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 seen | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ignorant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Hawaiians | of the rest of the world; completely, ignorant, meanwhile property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | civilise | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | no civilised eyes | ever | eyes's mountains obj | 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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