Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 38
Meanwhile a great deal of other printed matter had been issued from that first press.
What happens: print, issue, deal · To what, where: great deal, first press, other printed matter
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: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 deal | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 deal | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deal | amod |
| 4 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 issued | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 matter | case |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 matter | amod |
| 7 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 matter | amod | |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deal | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 issued | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 issued | aux:pass |
| 11 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 press | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 press | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 press | amod |
| 15 | press | press | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 issued | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 issued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 2 | issue | past · perfect · passive | a great deal of other printed matter | that first press | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deal | other printed matter | nom deal «act 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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