Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 49
In December, 1827, came the first systematic attempt toward printing the Bible.
Who acts: first systematic attempt · What happens: come, print · To what, where: Bible
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 systematic attempt), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 December | case |
| 2 | December | December | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1827 | punct |
| 4 | 1827 | 1827 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 December | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 December | punct |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 attempt | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 attempt | amod |
| 9 | systematic | systematic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 attempt | amod |
| 10 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 printing | mark |
| 12 | printing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 attempt | acl | |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bible | det |
| 14 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 printing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the first systematic attempt | december | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gerund | the first systematic attempt not said here | the Bible | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bible=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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