Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 115
The power of the king and chiefs up to the time of their freely giving this constitution and new set of laws was practically unlimited.
Who acts: power, people, constitution · What happens: chief up, give, be · To what, where: time
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 (power, people, constitution), 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 power | det |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chiefs | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 power | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chiefs | cc |
| 7 | chiefs | chief | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 chiefs | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chiefs | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 giving | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 giving | nsubj |
| 14 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 15 giving | advmod |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 time | acl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 constitution | det |
| 17 | constitution | constitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 unlimited | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 set | amod |
| 20 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 constitution | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 laws | case |
| 22 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | nmod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 unlimited | cop |
| 24 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 25 unlimited | advmod |
| 25 | unlimited | unlimited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 giving | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chiefs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chief up | present | the power of the king | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | people | the time not said here | freely property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | this constitution and new set of laws | practically, unlimited property | tree rules |
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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