Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 50
“Protection is hereby secured to the persons of all the people, together with their lands, their building lots, and all their property while they conform to the laws of the kingdom, and nothing whatever shall be taken from any individual, except by express provision of the laws.”
Who acts: lots, laws · What happens: secure, conform, take, provide · To what, where: Protection, laws, whatever, individual
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 (lots, laws), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 secured | punct |
| 2 | Protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 secured | aux:pass |
| 4 | hereby | hereby | ADV | _ | 5 secured | advmod |
| 5 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 persons | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 persons | det |
| 8 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 secured | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 people | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 persons | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lands | punct |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 lands | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 lands | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 people | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lots | punct |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lots | nmod:poss |
| 20 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lots | compound |
| 21 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 people | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 property | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 property | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 property | det:predet |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 property | nmod:poss |
| 26 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | obl |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 conform | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 conform | nsubj |
| 29 | conform | conform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 secured | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 laws | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 laws | det |
| 32 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 conform | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 kingdom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 kingdom | det |
| 35 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 laws | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 nothing | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 nothing | cc |
| 38 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 secured | conj |
| 39 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 taken | obj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 taken | aux |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 individual | case |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 individual | det |
| 45 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taken | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 provision | punct |
| 47 | except | except | ADP | _ | 50 provision | case |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 provision | case |
| 49 | express | express | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 provision | amod |
| 50 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taken | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 laws | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 laws | det |
| 53 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 provision | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 secured | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure in a quote | present · passive | Protection | to the persons of all people and people's lands and people's building lots; lots's property obl; nothing conj; hereby property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to person=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | conform in a quote | present | lots = lot | to the laws of the kingdom goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to law=Goal | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | shall · passive | whatever | any individual | except express provision of the laws | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: whatever=Theme from individual=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | provide in a quote | the laws | nom provision «communication 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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