Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 2

Between the years 1835–1840 there was a culmination of several forces, each one important in itself and all uniting to bring about the exceedingly interesting series of events which marked the Hawaiian history of that time.

Who acts: culmination, exceedingly interesting series · What happens: be, unite, bring, mark · To what, where: Hawaiian history

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 (culmination, exceedingly interesting series), 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	Between	between	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 was	obl:unmarked
4	1835	1835	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	flat
5	–	–	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	6 1840	case
6	1840	1840	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 1835	nmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 culmination	det
10	culmination	culmination	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forces	case
12	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forces	amod
13	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 culmination	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 culmination	appos
17	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 itself	case
19	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 important	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 uniting	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 uniting	advmod
22	uniting	unite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 important	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bring	mark
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 uniting	xcomp
25	about	about	ADP	_	29 series	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 series	det
27	exceedingly	exceedingly	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 series	compound
28	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 series	amod
29	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 events	case
31	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 series	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 marked	nsubj
33	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 series	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 history	det
35	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 history	amod
36	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 marked	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 time	case
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 time	det
39	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 history	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a culmination of several forces		there	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	unite	gerund	a culmination of several forces not said here					tree rules
3	bring	to-infinitive	a culmination of several forces not said here				about the exceedingly interesting series of events	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	mark	past	the exceedingly interesting series of events	the Hawaiian history of that time				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent history=Destination

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, The First Constitution, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 2