Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 114

The fact must be recognised that before the adoption of this Constitution under the influence of the American missionaries the common people never owned any land or had any especial rights.

Who acts: common people · What happens: recognise, not own, have, adopt · To what, where: fact, land, especial rights, Constitution, influence

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 (common people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recognised	nsubj:pass
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 recognised	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 recognised	aux:pass
5	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 owned	mark
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 adoption	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 adoption	det
9	adoption	adoption	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 owned	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Constitution	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 Constitution	det
12	Constitution	Constitution	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 adoption	nmod
13	under	under	ADP	_	15 influence	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 influence	det
15	influence	influence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 adoption	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 missionaries	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 missionaries	det
18	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 missionaries	amod
19	missionaries	missionary	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 influence	nmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 people	det
21	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 owned	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 owned	advmod
24	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recognised	advcl
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 land	det
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 owned	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 owned	conj
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 rights	det
30	especial	especial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rights	amod
31	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recognised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	recognise	must · passive		the fact			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	not own	past	the common people	any land		before the adoption of this Constitution under the influence of the American missionaries	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot land=Theme
3	have	past	the common people not said here	any especial rights			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient
4	adopt			this Constitution	the influence of the American missionaries		nom adoption «act transitive»: of=patient under=place

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 114

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 114