Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 9
During these same years there came a new relation to the larger nations of the world.
Who acts: new relation · What happens: come · To what, where: larger nations
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 (new relation), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 years | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 came | expl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 relation | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 relation | amod |
| 9 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 nations | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nations | det |
| 12 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 nations | amod |
| 13 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nations | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a new relation | the larger nations of the world; there | year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nation=Initial_Location |
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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