Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 49
The king’s will was to be the people’s will.
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 will | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 will | aux |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 will | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 will | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 will | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 will | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 people | case |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 will | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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