Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 58

Mr. Whitney says: “I say if the whole Bible is in print in the Hawaiian language in ten years from this time it is as much as I expect, and I think will be a progress exceeding that of any other mission to any heathen country having a language not previously written or reduced to order.”

Who acts: Whitney, whole Bible, Bible, progress, other mission · What happens: say, be, expect, think, exceed, have · To what, where: print, time, progress, language · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Whitney, whole Bible, Bible, progress), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Whitney	nmod:desc
2	Whitney	Whitney	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 print	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bible	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Bible	amod
11	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 print	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 print	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 print	case
14	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 language	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 language	det
17	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 language	amod
18	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 print	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 years	case
20	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 language	nmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 years	nmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 much	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 much	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 time	acl:relcl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 expect	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 expect	nsubj
31	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 much	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 think	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 think	nsubj
35	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	parataxis
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 progress	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 progress	cop
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 progress	det
39	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 think	ccomp
40	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 progress	acl
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 exceeding	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 mission	case
43	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 mission	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mission	amod
45	mission	mission	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 that	nmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 country	case
47	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	49 country	det
48	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 country	compound
49	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 mission	nmod
50	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 mission	acl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 language	det
52	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 having	obj
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 written	advmod
54	previously	previously	ADV	_	55 written	advmod
55	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 language	acl:relcl
56	or	or	CCONJ	_	57 reduced	cc
57	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 written	conj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 order	mark
59	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 reduced	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Whitney Mr.				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Whitney Mr. = whitney				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the whole Bible		print	in the Hawaiian language in ten years from this time	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	Bible	this time not said here		much property	tree rules
5	expect in a quote	present	Whitney Mr. = whitney				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	think speech: other in a quote	present	Whitney Mr. = whitney				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a in a quote	future		a progress			tree rules
8	exceed in a quote	gerund	a progress not said here	a progress			vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
9	have in a quote	gerund	any other mission to any heathen country not said here	a language			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent language=Patient
10	not write in a quote	participle		a language not said here		previously property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	reduce in a quote	participle					vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer clause=Goal
12	order in a quote	to-infinitive					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 58

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 58