Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 55
The entire Bible was completed and “the finishing sheet was struck off May 10, 1839.”
What happens: complete, strike off · To what, where: entire Bible, finishing sheet
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bible | det |
| 2 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bible | amod |
| 3 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 completed | aux:pass |
| 5 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sheet | det |
| 9 | finishing | finishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sheet | compound |
| 10 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | aux:pass |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 completed | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 struck | compound:prt |
| 14 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 10 | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 struck | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 1839 | punct |
| 17 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 10 | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 completed | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · passive | the entire Bible | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | strike off in a quote | past · passive | the finishing sheet | 10 May obl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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