Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 45
The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, issued June 7, 1839, stated first the principle upon which the American Declaration of Independence was founded, viz.:
Who acts: Hawaiian Declaration · What happens: issue, state, found · To what, where: 7, principle, American 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: who acts (Hawaiian Declaration), 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 Declaration | det |
| 2 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Declaration | compound |
| 3 | Declaration | Declaration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stated | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Rights | case |
| 5 | Rights | Right | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 Declaration | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 issued | punct |
| 7 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Declaration | acl |
| 8 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 7 | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 issued | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 1839 | punct |
| 11 | 1839 | 1839 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 7 | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Declaration | punct |
| 13 | stated | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 stated | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 principle | det |
| 16 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stated | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 founded | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Declaration | det |
| 20 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Declaration | amod |
| 21 | Declaration | Declaration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Independence | case |
| 23 | Independence | Independence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Declaration | nmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 founded | aux:pass |
| 25 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 principle | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 viz | punct |
| 27 | viz | viz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 principle | conj |
| 28 | .: | .: | SYM | _ | 13 stated | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | participle | the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights not said here | 7 June | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | state speech: other | past | the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights | the principle and viz | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent principle=Topic | |||
| 3 | found | past · passive | the American Declaration of Independence | upon the principle and viz | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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