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Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 19

As soon as the missionaries were sure of the orthography and pronunciation of a number of words they prepared a primer or spelling book to be printed for the schools they were carrying on.

Who acts: missionaries · What happens: be, prepare, print, carry on · To what, where: primer, schools

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), 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

advmodadvmodmarkdetnsubjcopcasedetoblccconjcasedetnmodcasenmodnsubjacl:relcldetobjcccompoundconjmarkaux:passaclcasedetoblnsubjauxacl:relclcompound:prtpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasSCONJtheDETmissionariesNOUNwereAUXsureADJofADPtheDETorthographyNOUNandCCONJpronunciationNOUNofADPaDETnumberNOUNofADPwordsNOUNtheyPRONpreparedVERBaDETprimerNOUNorCCONJspellingNOUNbookNOUNtoPARTbeAUXprintedVERBforADPtheDETschoolsNOUNtheyPRONwereAUXcarryingVERBonADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Pos7 sureadvmod
3asasSCONJ_7 suremark
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 missionariesdet
5missionariesmissionaryNOUNNumber=Plur7 surensubj
6werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 surecop
7suresureADJDegree=Posrootroot
8ofofADP_10 orthographycase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 orthographydet
10orthographyorthographyNOUNNumber=Sing7 sureobl
11andandCCONJ_12 pronunciationcc
12pronunciationpronunciationNOUNNumber=Sing10 orthographyconj
13ofofADP_15 numbercase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 numberdet
15numbernumberNOUNNumber=Sing10 orthographynmod
16ofofADP_17 wordscase
17wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur15 numbernmod
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 preparednsubj
19preparedprepareVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 wordsacl:relcl
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 primerdet
21primerprimerNOUNNumber=Sing19 preparedobj
22ororCCONJ_24 bookcc
23spellingspellingNOUNNumber=Sing24 bookcompound
24bookbookNOUNNumber=Sing21 primerconj
25totoPART_27 printedmark
26bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf27 printedaux:pass
27printedprintVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 bookacl
28forforADP_30 schoolscase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 schoolsdet
30schoolsschoolNOUNNumber=Plur27 printedobl
31theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs33 carryingnsubj
32werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 carryingaux
33carryingcarryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part30 schoolsacl:relcl
34ononADP_33 carryingcompound:prt
35..PUNCT_7 surepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastthe missionariesof the orthography of a number of words and pronunciation; soon, sure propertytree rules
2preparepastmissionaries = missionarya primer or spelling bookvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent primer=Patient
3printto-infinitive · passivemissionaries = missionary not said herefor the schoolsvn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»
4carry onpast · progressivemissionaries = missionarythe schools not said herevn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent school=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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