Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 32
The foreign consuls assisted and even wrote some of the earlier laws.
What happens: assist, write · To what, where: foreign consuls, some
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 consuls | det |
| 2 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 consuls | amod |
| 3 | consuls | consul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 assisted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wrote | cc |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 wrote | advmod |
| 7 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 assisted | conj |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 wrote | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 laws | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laws | det |
| 11 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 laws | amod |
| 12 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist | participle · passive | the foreign consuls | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | write | past | some of the earlier laws | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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