Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 116

The fact that they voluntarily limited themselves for the benefit of the people must be noted to the credit of an awakened conscience under missionary guidance.

Who acts: people · What happens: limit, note, awaken, credit · To what, where: people, fact, credit, awakened conscience

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), 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	16 noted	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 limited	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 limited	nsubj
5	voluntarily	voluntarily	ADV	_	6 limited	advmod
6	limited	limit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fact	acl
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 limited	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 benefit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 benefit	det
10	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 limited	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 people	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 benefit	nmod
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 noted	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 noted	aux:pass
16	noted	note	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 credit	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 credit	det
19	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 noted	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 conscience	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 conscience	det
22	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 conscience	amod
23	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 credit	nmod
24	under	under	ADP	_	26 guidance	case
25	missionary	missionary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 guidance	amod
26	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 conscience	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 noted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	limit	past	people	people		for the benefit of the people; voluntarily property	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer themselves=Patient
2	note	must · passive		the fact	the credit of a awakened conscience under missionary guidance		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to credit=Recipient
3	awaken	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	credit			a awakened conscience under missionary guidance			nom credit «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 116

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 116