Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 56
An interesting prophecy concerning the completion of the Bible is found in a writing book, where, under the date April 30, 1827, is the record of a conversation.
Who acts: interesting prophecy, date · What happens: concern, find, be, complete · To what, where: completion, interesting prophecy, writing book, record, 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 (interesting prophecy, date), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prophecy | det |
| 2 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prophecy | amod |
| 3 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 prophecy | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 completion | det |
| 6 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concerning | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Bible | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bible | det |
| 9 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 completion | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux:pass |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 14 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 book | compound |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 record | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 record | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 date | punct |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 date | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 date | det |
| 21 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 record | nsubj |
| 22 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 30 | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 date | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 1827 | punct |
| 25 | 1827 | 1827 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 30 | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 date | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 record | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 record | det |
| 29 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 book | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 conversation | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 conversation | det |
| 32 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 record | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern | gerund | a interesting prophecy not said here | the completion of the Bible | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus completion=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | a interesting prophecy | a writing book | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the date 30 April | the record | of a conversation | tree rules | |||
| 4 | complete | the Bible | nom completion «act 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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