Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 106
“Formerly if the king wished the property of any man he took it without reward, seized it by force or took a portion only, as he chose, and no man could refuse him.
Who acts: king, property, man · What happens: wish, take, seize, choose, refuse · To what, where: idler, portion, property · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, property, man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
| 2 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 6 wished | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 wished | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 property | det |
| 8 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 property | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wished | ccomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 reward | case |
| 16 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seized | punct |
| 18 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seized | obj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 force | case |
| 21 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seized | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 took | cc |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seized | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 portion | det |
| 25 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 took | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 chose | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 chose | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 chose | nsubj |
| 30 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 refuse | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 refuse | cc |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 man | det |
| 34 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 refuse | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 refuse | aux |
| 36 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 chose | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 refuse | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | past | the king | formerly property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | past | the property of any man | idler | without reward | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | seize in a quote | past | the property of any man not said here | idler | by force | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | take in a quote | past | the property of any man not said here | a portion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Theme | ||||
| 5 | choose in a quote | past | property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | refuse in a quote | could | no man | property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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