Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 105
These changes are worth noting because of their historical bearing upon the past and present condition of the native Hawaiians.
Who acts: changes · What happens: be, note, condition · To what, where: native Hawaiians
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 (changes), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 changes | det |
| 2 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | cop |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | noting | note | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 worth | xcomp |
| 6 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 bearing | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 because | fixed |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bearing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bearing | amod |
| 10 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noting | obl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 past | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 past | det |
| 13 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noting | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 condition | cc |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 condition | amod |
| 16 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 past | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hawaiians | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hawaiians | det |
| 19 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Hawaiians | amod |
| 20 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 condition | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this changes | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | note | gerund | this changes not said here | because changes's historical bearing; upon the past and present condition of the native Hawaiians | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | condition | the native Hawaiians | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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