Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 13
Schools and churches and the first newspapers published in the Pacific Ocean were all enforcing the demand for better government.
Who acts: Schools · What happens: publish, enforce · To what, where: first newspapers, Pacific Ocean, demand
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 (Schools), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 enforcing | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 churches | cc |
| 3 | churches | church | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Schools | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 newspapers | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 newspapers | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 newspapers | amod |
| 7 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Schools | conj |
| 8 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 newspapers | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Ocean | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ocean | det |
| 11 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ocean | compound |
| 12 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 published | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 enforcing | aux |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 enforcing | advmod |
| 15 | enforcing | enforce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 demand | det |
| 17 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enforcing | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 government | case |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 government | amod |
| 20 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 demand | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 enforcing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | participle | the first newspapers not said here | the Pacific Ocean | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enforce | past · progressive | Schools and churches and the first newspapers | the demand | for better government; all property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=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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