Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 23
These laws and the Constitution and Declaration of Rights were first published in English in 1842.
What happens: publish · To what, where: laws, English
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 laws | det |
| 2 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 published | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Constitution | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Constitution | det |
| 5 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laws | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Declaration | cc |
| 7 | Declaration | Declaration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Constitution | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Rights | case |
| 9 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Declaration | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 published | aux:pass |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 published | advmod |
| 12 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 English | case |
| 14 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 published | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1842 | case |
| 16 | 1842 | 1842 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 published | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 published | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | publish | past · passive | this laws the Constitution and Declaration of Rights | English | in 1842; first property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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