Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 113
“Formerly if the people did not go to the work of the king when required, the punishment was that their houses were set on fire and consumed.”
Who acts: people, king · What happens: not go, require, set, consume, work · To what, where: work, punishment, fire
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 (people, king), 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 | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | Formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | nmod |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 required | advmod |
| 16 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 go | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 punishment | det |
| 19 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux:pass |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 set | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 houses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux:pass |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 go | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 consumed | cc |
| 29 | consumed | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | past · do-support | the people | the work of the king | formerly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | require in a quote | participle | the people not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set in a quote | past · passive | the punishment | fire | people's houses nsubj:pass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on fire=Destination | |||
| 4 | consume in a quote | past | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | work in a quote | the king | nom work «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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