Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 50
Twelve pages of the Gospel of Luke were struck off—10,700 copies.
What happens: strike off, page · To what, where: Twelve pages, Gospel
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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 pages | nummod |
| 2 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gospel | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gospel | det |
| 5 | Gospel | Gospel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pages | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Luke | case |
| 7 | Luke | Luke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gospel | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | aux:pass |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 struck | compound:prt |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
| 12 | 10,700 | 10,700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 copies | nummod |
| 13 | copies | copy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike off | past · passive | Twelve pages of the Gospel of Luke | 10,700 copies obj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient copy=Result | ||||
| 2 | page | the Gospel of Luke | nom page «communication 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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