Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui Seeking Immortality, sentence 2
For pure imagination and pathos it is difficult to find any tale from Grecian or Latin literature to compare with it.
What happens: be, find, compare · To what, where: tale, Grecian literature
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui Seeking Immortality. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 imagination | case |
| 2 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 imagination | amod |
| 3 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 difficult | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pathos | cc |
| 5 | pathos | pathos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagination | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 difficult | expl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 difficult | cop |
| 8 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 difficult | csubj |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 tale | det |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 literature | case |
| 14 | Grecian | grecian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 literature | amod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 Latin | cc |
| 16 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Grecian | conj |
| 17 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 compare | mark |
| 19 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 find | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 compare | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | for pure imagination and pathos; difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | any tale | Grecian literature | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tale=Theme from literature=Source | ||||
| 3 | compare | to-infinitive | with literature | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with it=Co-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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