Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 26
While the chiefs were awakened by these proof impressions to intellectual desires never before experienced, the work was being pushed of finishing the second “signature” and the complete book of sixteen pages was printed in an edition of 500 copies.
Who acts: proof impressions · What happens: awaken, push, finish, print · To what, where: chiefs, work, second signature, complete book, edition
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 (proof impressions), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 awakened | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awakened | aux:pass |
| 5 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pushed | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 impressions | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 impressions | det |
| 8 | proof | proof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 impressions | amod |
| 9 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awakened | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 desires | case |
| 11 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 desires | amod |
| 12 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 impressions | nmod |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 before | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 awakened | advmod |
| 15 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 before | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 awakened | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pushed | aux:pass |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 pushed | aux:pass |
| 21 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 finishing | mark |
| 23 | finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 pushed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 signature | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 signature | amod |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 signature | punct |
| 27 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finishing | obj |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 finishing | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 printed | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 book | det |
| 31 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 book | amod |
| 32 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 pages | case |
| 34 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 pages | nummod |
| 35 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 book | nmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 printed | aux:pass |
| 37 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 finishing | conj | |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 edition | case |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 edition | det |
| 40 | edition | edition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 printed | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 copies | case |
| 42 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 43 copies | nummod |
| 43 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 edition | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | this proof impressions to intellectual desires | the chiefs | never | before property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | push | past · passive | the work | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | finish | gerund | the second signature | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality signature=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | past · passive | the complete book of sixteen pages | a edition of 500 copies | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in edition=Destination |
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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