Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 125
January 18, ministers and consul-generals from several nations hastened to hand in their recognition of the new government, and on the 19th English and Japanese ministers practically completed the list.
Who acts: 18 ministers, ministers · What happens: hasten, hand, complete, recognize · To what, where: several nations, recognition, list, 19th English ministers, new government
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (18 ministers, ministers), 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 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 18 | nmod:unmarked |
| 2 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 ministers | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 18 | punct |
| 4 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 completed | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 generals | cc |
| 6 | consul | consul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 generals | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 consul | punct |
| 8 | generals | general | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ministers | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 nations | case |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nations | amod |
| 11 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 generals | nmod |
| 12 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nations | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hand | mark |
| 14 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hastened | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 recognition | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 recognition | nmod:poss |
| 17 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 government | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 government | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 government | amod |
| 21 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 recognition | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 completed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 completed | cc |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 ministers | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ministers | det |
| 26 | 19th | 19th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 30 ministers | amod |
| 27 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ministers | amod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Japanese | cc |
| 29 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 English | conj |
| 30 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 completed | obl |
| 31 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 32 completed | advmod |
| 32 | completed | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 list | det |
| 34 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 completed | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | several nations not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hand | to-infinitive | ministers's recognition of the new government | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | complete | past | 18 ministers and consul generals from several nations | the list | the 19th English ministers | practically property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | recognize | ministers = minister | the new government | nom recognition «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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