Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 16

The first instruction was necessarily in English, but the missionaries used every opportunity to become acquainted with the speech of the people and make it a written language.

Who acts: first instruction, missionaries · What happens: be, use, become, make, write, speak · To what, where: English, opportunity, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first instruction, missionaries), 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	3 instruction	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 instruction	amod
3	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 English	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 English	cop
5	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	7 English	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 English	case
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 missionaries	det
11	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 English	parataxis
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 opportunity	det
14	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 become	mark
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 opportunity	acl
17	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 become	xcomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 speech	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 speech	det
20	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 acquainted	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 speech	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
25	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 used	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 language	det
28	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 language	amod
29	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 English	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first instruction		English	necessarily property	tree rules
2	use	past	the missionaries	every opportunity			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient
3	become	to-infinitive	the missionaries not said here	every opportunity not said here		acquainted property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	make	present	the missionaries not said here	opportunity		a written language obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary language=Product
5	write	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	speak			the people			nom speech «communication 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 16