Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 24
The Declaration and Constitution owe much of their remarkably clear and broad conceptions of the relation of ruler and subject to Mr. Richards.
Who acts: Declaration · What happens: owe, conceive · To what, where: much, relation
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 (Declaration), 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 Declaration | det |
| 2 | Declaration | Declaration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 owe | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Constitution | cc |
| 4 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Declaration | conj |
| 5 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 owe | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 conceptions | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 conceptions | nmod:poss |
| 9 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 10 clear | advmod |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conceptions | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 broad | cc |
| 12 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clear | conj |
| 13 | conceptions | conception | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 much | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 relation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 relation | det |
| 16 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conceptions | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ruler | case |
| 18 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 relation | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 subject | cc |
| 20 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 relation | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Richards | case |
| 22 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Richards | nmod:desc |
| 23 | Richards | Richards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 subject | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 owe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present | the Declaration and Constitution | much of Declaration's clear conceptions of the relation of ruler and subject to Richards Mr. | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent much=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conceive | Declaration | the relation of ruler and subject to Richards Mr. | nom conception «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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