Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 22
Although these impressions were merely proof sheets, probably, of the first half of the spelling book, yet the large number printed and put in use, nearly 100 in all, would make this the first item printed.
Who acts: impressions, large number, this · What happens: be, print, put, make · To what, where: proof sheets, large number, use, this
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 (impressions, large number, this), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 7 sheets | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 impressions | det |
| 3 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sheets | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sheets | cop |
| 5 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 7 sheets | advmod |
| 6 | proof | proof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sheets | amod |
| 7 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 9 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 14 half | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 half | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 half | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 half | amod |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 sheets | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 book | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 book | det |
| 17 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 book | compound |
| 18 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 half | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 make | punct |
| 20 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 36 make | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 number | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 number | amod |
| 23 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | nsubj |
| 24 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 number | acl | |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 put | cc |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 printed | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 use | case |
| 28 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 100 | punct |
| 30 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 31 100 | advmod |
| 31 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 use | appos |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 100 | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 number | punct |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 make | aux |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sheets | acl:relcl |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 item | det |
| 39 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 40 item | amod |
| 40 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obj |
| 41 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 make | xcomp | |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sheets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this impressions | proof sheets | of the first half of the spelling book; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | participle | the large number not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | put | participle | use | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in use=Destination | |||||
| 4 | make | would | the large number | this | the first item obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | participle | this not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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