Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 7
It was impossible to adopt a uniform method.
What happens: be, adopt · To what, where: uniform method
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: 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 | 3 impossible | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 adopt | mark |
| 5 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | csubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 method | det |
| 7 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 method | compound |
| 8 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adopt | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | adopt | to-infinitive | a uniform method | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=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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