Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 3
Missionary instruction commenced in 1820.
What happens: commence · To what, where: Missionary instruction, 1820
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: 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 | Missionary | missionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 instruction | compound |
| 2 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 instruction | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 1820 | case |
| 5 | 1820 | 1820 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 commenced | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 instruction | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence | participle | Missionary instruction not said here | 1820 | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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