Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 144
What has to be is accepted without rebellion.
What happens: accept
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 accepted | obj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 accepted | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 accepted | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 accepted | aux:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 accepted | aux:pass |
| 6 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 rebellion | case |
| 8 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accepted | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | present · passive | without rebellion; What obj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: what=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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