Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 42

The Hawaiian Magna Charta, like that of King John Lackland, was irrevocable, because, like the great charter of England, it was a step in the evolution of human liberty.

Who acts: Hawaiian Magna, Magna, human liberty · What happens: be, charter, evolve · To what, where: step, evolution, England

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 (Hawaiian Magna, Magna, human liberty), 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 Magna	det
2	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Magna	compound
3	Magna	Magna	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 irrevocable	nsubj
4	Charta	Charta	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Magna	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Magna	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 John	case
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 John	nmod:desc
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 that	nmod
11	Lackland	Lackland	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 John	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Magna	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 irrevocable	cop
14	irrevocable	irrevocable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 charter	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 charter	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 charter	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	21 charter	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 charter	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 charter	amod
21	charter	charter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 irrevocable	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 England	case
23	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 charter	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 step	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 step	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 step	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 step	det
28	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 irrevocable	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 evolution	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 evolution	det
31	evolution	evolution	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 step	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 liberty	case
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 liberty	amod
34	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 evolution	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 irrevocable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Hawaiian Magna like that of John King			the great charter of England conj; irrevocable property	tree rules
2	is a	past	Magna	a step	the evolution of human liberty		tree rules
3	charter			England			nom charter «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	evolve		human liberty				nom evolution «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 42