Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 27
Gov. Adams (Kuakini) secured one of the first copies of these lessons “and was quickly master of them.”
Who acts: Gov. Adams · What happens: secure, be, copy · To what, where: one, master, lessons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gov. Adams), 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 | Gov. | Gov. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Adams | compound |
| 2 | Adams | adam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 secured | nsubj |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kuakini | punct |
| 4 | Kuakini | Kuakini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Adams | appos |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kuakini | punct |
| 6 | secured | secure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 secured | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 copies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 copies | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 copies | amod |
| 11 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lessons | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 lessons | det |
| 14 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 copies | nmod |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 master | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 master | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 master | cop |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 master | advmod |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secured | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 master | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 master | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | past | Gov. Adams | one of the first copies of this lessons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | master | of copies = copy; quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | copy | this lessons | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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