Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 45
The first printed Bible passage was in a revised spelling book published April, 1825.
Who acts: first printed Bible passage · What happens: print, revise, be, publish · To what, where: revised spelling book
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 (first printed Bible passage), 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 | 5 passage | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 passage | amod |
| 3 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passage | amod | |
| 4 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passage | compound |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 book | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 book | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 book | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 9 | revised | revise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 book | amod |
| 10 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 book | compound |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 book | acl |
| 13 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 published | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 1825 | punct |
| 15 | 1825 | 1825 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 April | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 book | 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 | revise | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the first printed Bible passage | a revised spelling book | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | publish | participle | a revised spelling book not said here | april | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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