Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 43
It is interesting to note the similarity of thought and language when the leading principle of the Magna Charta is placed beside the supreme gift of the king granted in the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights.
What happens: be, note, lead, place, grant, gift · To what, where: similarity, leading principle, supreme gift, king, Hawaiian Declaration
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 interesting | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 interesting | cop |
| 3 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 note | mark |
| 5 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 interesting | csubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 similarity | det |
| 7 | similarity | similarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 note | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 thought | case |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 similarity | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 language | cc |
| 11 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 similarity | conj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 placed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 principle | det |
| 14 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 principle | amod |
| 15 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Charta | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Charta | det |
| 18 | Magna | Magna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Charta | compound |
| 19 | Charta | Charta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 principle | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 placed | aux:pass |
| 21 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 note | advcl |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 25 gift | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gift | det |
| 24 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gift | amod |
| 25 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 placed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gift | nmod |
| 29 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 king | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Declaration | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Declaration | det |
| 32 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Declaration | compound |
| 33 | Declaration | Declaration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 granted | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Rights | case |
| 35 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 Declaration | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | note | to-infinitive | the similarity of thought and language | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent similarity=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 4 | place | present · passive | the leading principle of the Magna Charta | the supreme gift of the king | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside gift=Destination | ||||
| 5 | grant | participle | the king not said here | the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | gift | the king | nom gift «possession 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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