Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 198
In the future no man in my kingdom shall have the right to make excursions for robbery without punishment, be he chief or priest.
Who acts: man, right · What happens: have, make, be · To what, where: right, future, excursions
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 (man, right), 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 | _ | 3 future | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 future | det |
| 3 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 right | det |
| 12 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| 15 | excursions | excursion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 robbery | case |
| 17 | robbery | robbery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 punishment | case |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 chief | punct |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 chief | cop |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 chief | nsubj |
| 23 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 have | parataxis |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 priest | cc |
| 25 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chief | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | no man in my kingdom | the right | the future | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the right not said here | excursions | for robbery; without punishment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent excursion=Product for robbery=Asset | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | man | priest conj; chief property | 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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