Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 2
This is very fortunate for those who desire to gather together the facts out of which to weave a connected history of Polynesia.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, desire, gather, weave, connect · To what, where: facts, connected history
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 fortunate | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fortunate | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 fortunate | advmod |
| 4 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fortunate | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 desire | nsubj |
| 8 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 gather | mark |
| 10 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 desire | xcomp |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 gather | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 facts | det |
| 13 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gather | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 weave | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 weave | mark |
| 18 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 facts | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 history | det |
| 20 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 history | amod |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Polynesia | case |
| 23 | Polynesia | Polynesia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 history | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fortunate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | for those; fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | present | who nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gather not said to happen | to-infinitive | the facts | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme | ||||
| 4 | weave | to-infinitive | a connected history of Polynesia | the facts | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Product | ||||
| 5 | connect | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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