Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 17
They wrote down as carefully as they could every new word which came to their ears.
Who acts: missionaries, new word · What happens: write down, come · To what, where: ears
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 (missionaries, new word), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 wrote | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 carefully | advmod |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 wrote | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 word | case |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 word | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 word | aux |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 word | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 word | amod |
| 11 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrote | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 word | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 ears | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | past | missionaries = missionary | as every new word missionaries; carefully, down property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as word=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | come | past | every new word missionaries | missionaries's ears | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location |
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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