Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 4

John Young, Don Marin and Isaac Davis were notable exceptions in a few things, but the fact remains that no earnest effort was made by any one to help the natives intellectually until the missionaries came.

Who acts: John, fact, one, missionaries · What happens: be, remain, make, help, come · To what, where: notable exceptions, few things, earnest effort, natives

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 (John, fact, one, missionaries), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 exceptions	nsubj
2	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 John	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Don	punct
4	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	conj
5	Marin	Marin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Don	flat
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Isaac	cc
7	Isaac	Isaac	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	conj
8	Davis	Davis	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Isaac	flat
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 exceptions	cop
10	notable	notable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 exceptions	amod
11	exceptions	exception	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 things	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 things	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 exceptions	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 remains	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 remains	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fact	det
19	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 remains	nsubj
20	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 exceptions	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 made	mark
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 effort	det
23	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 effort	amod
24	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 made	aux:pass
26	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 remains	ccomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 made	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 help	mark
31	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 natives	det
33	natives	native	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 help	obj
34	intellectually	intellectually	ADV	_	31 help	advmod
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 missionaries	det
37	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 help	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 exceptions	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	John and Don and Isaac	notable exceptions	a few things		tree rules
2	remain	present	the fact				tree rules
3	make	past · passive	any one	no earnest effort			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product
4	help	to-infinitive	any one not said here	the natives		intellectually property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent native=Beneficiary
5	come	past	the missionaries				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 4