Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 38
Three steps are to be noticed in the growth of the recognition of the rights of the common people.
Who acts: recognition · What happens: notice, grow, recognize · To what, where: Three steps, growth, 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 (recognition), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 steps | nummod |
| 2 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 noticed | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 noticed | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 noticed | aux:pass |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 growth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 growth | det |
| 9 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 recognition | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 recognition | det |
| 12 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growth | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rights | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rights | det |
| 15 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 recognition | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 18 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 people | amod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rights | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present · passive | Three steps | the growth of the recognition of the rights of the common people | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | grow | the recognition of the rights of the common people | nom growth «process intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | recognize | the rights of the common people | nom recognition «state 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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