Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 43
The most interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian Islands belongs to the greatest work accomplished for the good of the people—the printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language.
Who acts: interesting part · What happens: belong, accomplish, print · To what, where: greatest work, Bible, Hawaiian language
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 (interesting part), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 interesting | advmod |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belongs | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 printing | case |
| 9 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Islands | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Islands | det |
| 12 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Islands | compound |
| 13 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 printing | nmod |
| 14 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 work | det |
| 17 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 work | amod |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belongs | obl |
| 19 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 work | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 good | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 good | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 accomplished | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 good | obl |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 printing | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 printing | det |
| 28 | printing | printing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belongs | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Bible | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Bible | det |
| 31 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 printing | nmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 language | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 language | det |
| 34 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 language | amod |
| 35 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 printing | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the interesting part of the story of printing in the Hawaiian Islands | to the greatest work; the printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language parataxis | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accomplish | participle | the greatest work not said here | for the good of the people | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | the Bible | the Hawaiian language | nom printing «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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