Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 13
The historian must remember that there were thousands of native eye-witnesses whose records cannot be overlooked in securing a true history.
Who acts: historian, thousands · What happens: remember, be, not overlook, secure · To what, where: records, true history · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (historian, thousands), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 historian | det |
| 2 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | aux |
| 4 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 were | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remember | ccomp |
| 8 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 witnesses | case |
| 10 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witnesses | amod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 witnesses | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 eye | punct |
| 13 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thousands | nmod |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 records | nmod:poss |
| 15 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 overlooked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 overlooked | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 overlooked | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 overlooked | aux:pass |
| 19 | overlooked | overlook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 witnesses | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 securing | mark |
| 21 | securing | secure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 overlooked | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 history | det |
| 23 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 history | amod |
| 24 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 securing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | must | the historian | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | past | thousands of native eye witnesses | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not overlook | can · passive | records | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | secure | gerund | a true history | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition history=Theme |
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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