Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 3
A nation founded in the sunlight of civilisation cannot have a legendary past, but it must depend many times upon the cloudy memory of individuals.
Who acts: nation, it · What happens: found, not have, depend · To what, where: nation, sunlight, legendary past
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation, it), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nation | det |
| 2 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | nsubj |
| 3 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nation | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sunlight | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sunlight | det |
| 6 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 founded | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 civilisation | case |
| 8 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sunlight | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 have | advmod |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 past | det |
| 13 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 past | amod |
| 14 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 depend | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 depend | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 depend | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 depend | aux |
| 19 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | conj |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 times | amod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 depend | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 memory | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 memory | det |
| 24 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 memory | amod |
| 25 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 depend | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 individuals | case |
| 27 | individuals | individual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 memory | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | participle | a nation not said here | the sunlight of civilisation | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not have | can | a nation | a legendary past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent past=Patient | ||||
| 3 | depend | must | it | time | upon the cloudy memory of individuals | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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