Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 34
Nevertheless, the flood could not be held back and the privilege of reading and writing rapidly spread among the people.
Who acts: privilege · What happens: not hold back, spread · To what, where: flood
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 (privilege), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 8 held | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flood | det |
| 4 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 held | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 held | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 held | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 held | aux:pass |
| 8 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 held | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spread | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 privilege | det |
| 12 | privilege | privilege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spread | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 reading | case |
| 14 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 privilege | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 writing | cc |
| 16 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reading | conj |
| 17 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 18 spread | advmod |
| 18 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 held | conj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 spread | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hold back | could · passive | the flood | nevertheless property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | the privilege of reading and writing | among the people; rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among people=Location |
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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