Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 175

It was a political condition which the Hawaiians of a hundred years later could scarcely begin to realise.

Who acts: memory · What happens: be, begin, realise · To what, where: political condition

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: who acts (memory), 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	5 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 Hawaiians	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Hawaiians	det
8	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 condition	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 years	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Hawaiians	nmod
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 begin	advmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 begin	aux
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	16 begin	advmod
16	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 realise	mark
18	realise	realise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 begin	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	memory	a political condition	the Hawaiians a political condition of hundred years nmod	tree rules
2	begin	could			late, scarcely property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	realise	to-infinitive				tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 175

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 175