Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 24
These first sheets created a new interest among the chiefs.
Who acts: first sheets · What happens: create · To what, where: new interest
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 sheets), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 sheets | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sheets | amod |
| 3 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 created | nsubj |
| 4 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 interest | det |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 interest | amod |
| 7 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 created | obj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 chiefs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chiefs | det |
| 10 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 created | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | this first sheets | a new interest | among the chiefs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Result |
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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