Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 90
It was not long before word came that Europe and America had, as early as April, recognised the independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Who acts: cabinet, Europe · What happens: not be, come, have, recognise · To what, where: word, 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 (cabinet, Europe), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 9 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 had | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 America | cc |
| 11 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Europe | conj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 early | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 early | advmod |
| 15 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 had | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 April | case |
| 17 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 early | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 recognised | punct |
| 19 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 independence | det |
| 21 | independence | independence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 recognised | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Kingdom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Kingdom | det |
| 24 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Kingdom | compound |
| 25 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 independence | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | cabinet | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | word | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before word=Location | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Europe and America | early property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | recognise | past | the independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer independence=Stimulus |
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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