Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 14
In 1833 King Ka-meha-meha III was thinking seriously of holding unbridled sway over his people.
Who acts: III · What happens: think, hold, unbridl · To what, where: 1833, unbridled sway
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 (III), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1833 | case |
| 2 | 1833 | 1833 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 thinking | obl |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ka | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1833 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 meha | punct |
| 6 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Ka | dep |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 meha | punct |
| 8 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 4 Ka | dep |
| 9 | III | iii | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 thinking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thinking | aux |
| 11 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 11 thinking | advmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 seriously | fixed |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thinking | advcl |
| 15 | unbridled | unbridl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sway | amod |
| 16 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 holding | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | III | 1833 Ka King | seriously property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | III not said here | unbridled sway | over king's people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sway=Theme over people=Location | |||
| 3 | unbridl | participle | 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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