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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 52

As surely as the sunlight follows the morning star so certainly came the provision for a House of Nobles representing the chiefs and a House of Representatives representing the people.

Who acts: sunlight, provision, Representatives · What happens: follow, come, represent · To what, where: morning star, chiefs, people

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 (sunlight, provision, Representatives), 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

ccfixedfixeddetnsubjdetcompoundobjadvmodadvmodadvcldetnsubjcasedetnmodcasenmodacldetobjccdetconjcasenmodacldetobjpunctrootAsADVsurelyADVasADPtheDETsunlightNOUNfollowsVERBtheDETmorningNOUNstarNOUNsoADVcertainlyADVcameVERBtheDETprovisionNOUNforADPaDETHousePROPNofADPNoblesPROPNrepresentingVERBtheDETchiefsNOUNandCCONJaDETHousePROPNofADPRepresentativesPROPNrepresentingVERBtheDETpeopleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADVExtPos=CCONJ6 followscc
2surelysurelyADV_1 Asfixed
3asasADP_1 Asfixed
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sunlightdet
5sunlightsunlightNOUNNumber=Sing6 followsnsubj
6followsfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 stardet
8morningmorningNOUNNumber=Sing9 starcompound
9starstarNOUNNumber=Sing6 followsobj
10sosoADV_12 cameadvmod
11certainlycertainlyADV_12 cameadvmod
12camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 followsadvcl
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 provisiondet
14provisionprovisionNOUNNumber=Sing12 camensubj
15forforADP_17 Housecase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 Housedet
17HouseHousePROPNNumber=Sing14 provisionnmod
18ofofADP_19 Noblescase
19NoblesNoblePROPNNumber=Plur17 Housenmod
20representingrepresentVERBVerbForm=Ger14 provisionacl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 chiefsdet
22chiefschiefNOUNNumber=Plur20 representingobj
23andandCCONJ_25 Housecc
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 Housedet
25HouseHousePROPNNumber=Sing22 chiefsconj
26ofofADP_27 Representativescase
27RepresentativesRepresentativePROPNNumber=Plur25 Housenmod
28representingrepresentVERBVerbForm=Ger27 Representativesacl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 peopledet
30peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur28 representingobj
31..PUNCT_6 followspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1followpresentthe sunlightthe morning starvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
2comepastthe provision for a House of Noblescertainly propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3representgerundthe provision for a House of Nobles not said herethe chiefs and a House of Representativesvn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot chief=Theme
4representgerundRepresentatives not said herethe peoplevn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot people=Theme

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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