Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 97
In 1836, twelve years later, Rev. Titus Coan wrote about the coming of many natives into a Christian life.
Who acts: Titus · What happens: write, come · To what, where: 1836, Christian life
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Titus), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1836 | case |
| 2 | 1836 | 1836 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 wrote | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1836 | punct |
| 4 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 later | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 1836 | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 1836 | punct |
| 8 | Rev. | Rev. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Titus | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Titus | Titus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wrote | nsubj |
| 10 | Coan | Coan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Titus | flat |
| 11 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 14 coming | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 coming | det |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 wrote | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 natives | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 natives | amod |
| 17 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 coming | obl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 life | det |
| 20 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 life | amod |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Titus Rev. | 1836 | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Titus Rev. not said here | a Christian life | of many natives | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of native=Initial_Location into life=Destination |
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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