Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 109
“Formerly the chief could call the people from one end of the islands to the other to perform labour.”
Who acts: chief · What happens: call, perform · To what, where: people, one end, labour · 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 (chief), 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 call | punct |
| 2 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 6 call | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 call | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 end | nummod |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 end | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 call | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 perform | mark |
| 19 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 other | xcomp |
| 20 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perform | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | could | the chief | the people | from one end of the islands | to the other; formerly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent people=Theme from end=Source | ||
| 2 | perform in a quote | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | labour | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=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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