Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 30
Dibble, the first among the missionaries to prepare a history of the islands, gave the following description of the event:
Who acts: Dibble · What happens: prepare, give, follow, describe · To what, where: history, following description, event
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dibble), 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 | Dibble | dibble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 first | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Dibble | appos |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 missionaries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 missionaries | det |
| 7 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 first | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prepare | mark |
| 9 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 missionaries | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 history | det |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prepare | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 history | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dibble | punct |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 description | det |
| 18 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 description | amod |
| 19 | description | description | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 event | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 event | det |
| 22 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 description | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | to-infinitive | Dibble not said here | a history of the islands | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Dibble | the following description of the event | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | describe | the event | nom description «communication transitive»: of=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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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