Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 36
The king and the high chiefs ratified these laws, explained them to the people and put them in force.
Who acts: king · What happens: ratify, explain, put · To what, where: laws, law, people, force
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ratified | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chiefs | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chiefs | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chiefs | amod |
| 6 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | conj |
| 7 | ratified | ratify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 laws | det |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ratified | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 explained | punct |
| 11 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ratified | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 explained | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 explained | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 explained | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 force | case |
| 20 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ratified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ratify | past | the king and the high chiefs | this laws | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | law | the people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to people=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | law | force | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in force=Destination |
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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