Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 17
The earthquake changes in civil conditions occurring at that time throughout the islands speedily made the king and the chiefs conscious of their ignorance of methods of government, and in 1836 they applied to the United States “for a legal adviser and instructor in the science of government.”
Who acts: earthquake, civil conditions, chiefs · What happens: change, occur, make, apply, ignore · To what, where: islands, king, civil conditions, 1836, methods
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 (earthquake, civil conditions, chiefs), 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 earthquake | det |
| 2 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changes | nsubj |
| 3 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 conditions | case |
| 5 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 conditions | amod |
| 6 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl |
| 7 | occurring | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 conditions | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurring | obl |
| 11 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 13 islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 islands | det |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 occurring | obl |
| 14 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changes | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 conscious | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chiefs | det |
| 20 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 conscious | nsubj |
| 21 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 made | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ignorance | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ignorance | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 conscious | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 methods | case |
| 26 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ignorance | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 government | case |
| 28 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 methods | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 applied | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 applied | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 1836 | case |
| 32 | 1836 | 1836 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 applied | obl |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 applied | nsubj |
| 34 | applied | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 States | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 States | det |
| 37 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 States | amod |
| 38 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 applied | obl |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 adviser | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 adviser | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 adviser | det |
| 42 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 adviser | amod |
| 43 | adviser | adviser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 applied | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 instructor | cc |
| 45 | instructor | instructor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 adviser | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 science | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 science | det |
| 48 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 adviser | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 government | case |
| 50 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 science | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changes | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | the earthquake | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | occur | gerund | civil conditions not said here | the islands | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme throughout island=Location | |||
| 3 | make | past | the king | civil conditions | speedily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product | |||
| 4 | apply | past | chiefs = chief | 1836 | to the United States; for a legal adviser in the science of government and instructor | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for adviser=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | ignore | chiefs = chief | methods of government | nom ignorance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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