Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 1
Many subtle influences were at work in the evolution of Hawaiian civilisation.
Who acts: Many subtle influences, Hawaiian civilisation · What happens: be, evolve · To what, where: work
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many subtle influences, Hawaiian civilisation), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 influences | amod |
| 2 | subtle | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 influences | amod |
| 3 | influences | influence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 work | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 work | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 evolution | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 evolution | det |
| 9 | evolution | evolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 civilisation | case |
| 11 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 civilisation | amod |
| 12 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 evolution | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many subtle influences | work | in the evolution of Hawaiian civilisation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | evolve | Hawaiian civilisation | nom evolution «process intransitive»: of=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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