Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 104
Accompanying this act compelling idlers to toil there was a clear statement of the strong contrast between the burdens of the time immediately preceding and those after the passage of the new laws.
Who acts: Accompanying, time, new laws · What happens: accompany, compel, toil, be, precede, burden · To what, where: act, idlers, clear statement, time
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Accompanying, time, new laws), 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 | Accompanying | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 statement | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 act | det |
| 3 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Accompanying | obj |
| 4 | compelling | compel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Accompanying | conj |
| 5 | idlers | idler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 compelling | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 toil | mark |
| 7 | toil | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 compelling | xcomp |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 statement | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 statement | det |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 statement | amod |
| 12 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 contrast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 contrast | det |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 contrast | amod |
| 16 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 statement | nmod |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 burdens | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 burdens | det |
| 19 | burdens | burden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 contrast | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 burdens | nmod |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 preceding | advmod |
| 24 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 time | acl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 those | cc |
| 26 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 preceding | obj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 passage | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 passage | det |
| 29 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 those | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 laws | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 laws | det |
| 32 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 laws | amod |
| 33 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 passage | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 statement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | gerund | this act | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compel | gerund | idlers | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent idler=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | toil | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | Accompanying | a clear statement | of the strong contrast between the burdens of the time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | precede | gerund | the time not said here | the time | after the passage of the new laws | immediately property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Co-Theme | ||
| 6 | burden | the time | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | pass | the new laws | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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