Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 37
This is in brief the situation immediately preceding and accompanying the peaceable and yet irreclaimable establishment of constitutional rights and privileges in Hawaii.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, accompany, establish · To what, where: brief, peaceable establishment, constitutional rights
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 preceding | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 preceding | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 brief | case |
| 4 | brief | brief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preceding | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 situation | det |
| 6 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preceding | nsubj |
| 7 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 8 preceding | advmod |
| 8 | preceding | precede | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 accompanying | cc |
| 10 | accompanying | accompany | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 preceding | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 establishment | det |
| 12 | peaceable | peaceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 establishment | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 irreclaimable | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 irreclaimable | advmod |
| 15 | irreclaimable | irreclaimable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 peaceable | conj |
| 16 | establishment | establishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accompanying | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rights | case |
| 18 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rights | amod |
| 19 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 establishment | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 privileges | cc |
| 21 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rights | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Hawaii | case |
| 23 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 rights | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 preceding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | brief | the situation nsubj; immediately, precede property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | accompany | gerund | This not said here | the peaceable establishment of constitutional rights in Hawaii and privileges | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent establishment=Theme | ||||
| 3 | establish | constitutional rights in Hawaii and privileges | nom establishment «act transitive»: 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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