Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 7
These years of religious instruction, with their resultant awakening of conscience and yearning for a better life, could not escape a close connection with the contemporaneous demands of civilisation.
Who acts: resultant, years, revivals · What happens: awaken, yearn, not escape, result, demand · To what, where: close connection, civilisation
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 (resultant, years, revivals), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 years | det |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 escape | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 instruction | case |
| 4 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instruction | amod |
| 5 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 years | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resultant | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 resultant | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 resultant | nmod:poss |
| 9 | resultant | resultant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 instruction | appos |
| 10 | awakening | awaken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 resultant | acl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 conscience | case |
| 12 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awakening | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 yearning | cc |
| 14 | yearning | yearn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 awakening | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 life | det |
| 17 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 life | amod |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yearning | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 years | punct |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 escape | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 escape | advmod |
| 22 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 connection | det |
| 24 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 connection | amod |
| 25 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 escape | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 demands | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 demands | det |
| 28 | contemporaneous | contemporaneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 demands | amod |
| 29 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 connection | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 civilisation | case |
| 31 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 demands | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | gerund | revivals's resultant not said here | of conscience | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | yearn | gerund | revivals's resultant not said here | for a better life | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not escape | could | this years of religious instruction | a close connection | with the contemporaneous demands of civilisation | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme connection=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | result | revivals = revival | nom resultant «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | demand | civilisation | nom demand «communication 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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