Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 31
He had already found that his word was not the only law in the kingdom.
Who acts: king, word · What happens: find, not be, word · To what, where: only law, kingdom
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, word), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 found | advmod |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 law | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 word | nmod:poss |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 law | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 law | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 law | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 law | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 law | amod |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 kingdom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kingdom | det |
| 15 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 law | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · perfect | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a | past | king's word | the only law | the kingdom | tree rules | |||
| 3 | word | king | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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