Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 4
The work of translating the Bible into the Hawaiian language was completed and the book published in 1839.
Who acts: work, book · What happens: translate, complete, publish · To what, where: Bible, Hawaiian language, work, 1839
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 (work, book), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 work | det |
| 2 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 translating | mark |
| 4 | translating | translate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 work | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bible | det |
| 6 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 translating | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 language | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 language | det |
| 9 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 language | amod |
| 10 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 translating | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 completed | aux:pass |
| 12 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 published | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 published | nsubj |
| 16 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 completed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 1839 | case |
| 18 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 published | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | gerund | the work not said here | the Bible | into the Hawaiian language result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent bible=Patient into language=Result | |||
| 2 | complete | past · passive | the work | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | publish | participle | the book | 1839 | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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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