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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 5

For several years the thoughts of the Bible had been studied and preached with great clearness and power as the result of the labour of translating and criticising the different books.

Who acts: labour · What happens: study, preach, translate, criticise, think, result · To what, where: thoughts, different books, Bible, labour

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 (labour), 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

caseamodobldetnsubj:passcasedetnmodauxaux:passccconjcaseamodoblccconjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodmarkaclccconjdetamodobjpunctrootForADPseveralADJyearsNOUNtheDETthoughtsNOUNofADPtheDETBiblePROPNhadAUXbeenAUXstudiedVERBandCCONJpreachedVERBwithADPgreatADJclearnessNOUNandCCONJpowerNOUNasADPtheDETresultNOUNofADPtheDETlabourNOUNofSCONJtranslatingVERBandCCONJcriticisingVERBtheDETdifferentADJbooksNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ForforADP_3 yearscase
2severalseveralADJDegree=Pos3 yearsamod
3yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur11 studiedobl
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 thoughtsdet
5thoughtsthoughtNOUNNumber=Plur11 studiednsubj:pass
6ofofADP_8 Biblecase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Bibledet
8BibleBiblePROPNNumber=Sing5 thoughtsnmod
9hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 studiedaux
10beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 studiedaux:pass
11studiedstudyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
12andandCCONJ_13 preachedcc
13preachedpreachVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 studiedconj
14withwithADP_16 clearnesscase
15greatgreatADJDegree=Pos16 clearnessamod
16clearnessclearnessNOUNNumber=Sing13 preachedobl
17andandCCONJ_18 powercc
18powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing16 clearnessconj
19asasADP_21 resultcase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 resultdet
21resultresultNOUNNumber=Sing16 clearnessnmod
22ofofADP_24 labourcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 labourdet
24labourlabourNOUNNumber=Sing21 resultnmod
25ofofSCONJ_26 translatingmark
26translatingtranslateVERBVerbForm=Ger24 labouracl
27andandCCONJ_28 criticisingcc
28criticisingcriticiseVERBVerbForm=Ger26 translatingconj
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 booksdet
30differentdifferentADJDegree=Pos31 booksamod
31booksbookNOUNNumber=Plur28 criticisingobj
32..PUNCT_11 studiedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1studypast · perfect · passivethe thoughts of the Bibleyearvn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2preach speech: otherparticiplewith great clearness as the result of the labour and powervn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3translategerundthe labour not said herevn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4criticisegerundthe labour not said herethe different bookstree rules
5thinkthe Biblenom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6resultthe labournom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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