Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 76
In a few hours it became known that he had come to restore the independence of the islands.
Who acts: Thomas · What happens: know, come, restore · To what, where: interview, independence
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 (Thomas), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hours | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hours | amod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 known | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 known | aux:pass |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 come | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 known | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 restore | mark |
| 13 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 independence | det |
| 15 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 restore | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 islands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 islands | det |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 independence | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | interview | hour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | Thomas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive | Thomas not said here | the independence of the islands | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent independence=Theme |
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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