Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 26
It was a revolution of ideas and purposes and customs remarkable in its extent and thoroughness.
Who acts: fact · What happens: be, extend · To what, where: revolution
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 (fact), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 revolution | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 revolution | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 revolution | det |
| 4 | revolution | revolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 ideas | case |
| 6 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 revolution | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 purposes | cc |
| 8 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ideas | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 customs | cc |
| 10 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ideas | conj |
| 11 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 customs | amod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 extent | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 extent | nmod:poss |
| 14 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarkable | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thoroughness | cc |
| 16 | thoroughness | thoroughness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 extent | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 revolution | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fact | a revolution | of ideas and purposes and customs | tree rules | |||
| 2 | extend | fact | nom extent «state transitive»: poss=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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