Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 53
The Constitution was promulgated October 8, 1840.
What happens: promulgate · To what, where: Constitution
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Constitution | det |
| 2 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 promulgated | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promulgated | aux:pass |
| 4 | promulgated | promulgate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | October | October | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 8 | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 promulgated | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 1840 | punct |
| 8 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 8 | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promulgated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promulgate speech: other | past · passive | the Constitution | 8 October obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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