Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 199
I make the law, the new law, for the safety of all men under my government.
Who acts: I · What happens: make · To what, where: law
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 law | det |
| 4 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 law | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 law | det |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 law | amod |
| 8 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 law | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 safety | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 safety | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 safety | det |
| 12 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 safety | nmod |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 government | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 government | nmod:poss |
| 18 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | I | the law and the new law | the safety of all men under my government conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Product |
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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