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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 54

After reiterating the Declaration of Rights the king defines the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and establishes the legislature and bestows upon it the power of enacting laws.

Who acts: power · What happens: reiterate, define, establish, bestow, enact · To what, where: Declaration, legislative branches, legislature, power, laws

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 (power), 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

markadvcldetobjcasenmoddetobjdetamodpunctconjccconjobjcasenmodccconjdetobjccconjcaseobldetobjmarkaclobjpunctrootAfterSCONJreiteratingVERBtheDETDeclarationPROPNofADPRightsPROPNtheDETkingNOUNdefinesVERBtheDETlegislativeADJ,PUNCTexecutiveADJandCCONJjudicialADJbranchesNOUNofADPgovernmentNOUNandCCONJestablishesVERBtheDETlegislatureNOUNandCCONJbestowsVERBuponADPitPRONtheDETpowerNOUNofSCONJenactingVERBlawsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_2 reiteratingmark
2reiteratingreiterateVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 definesadvcl
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Declarationdet
4DeclarationDeclarationPROPNNumber=Sing2 reiteratingobj
5ofofADP_6 Rightscase
6RightsRightPROPNNumber=Plur4 Declarationnmod
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 kingdet
8kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing2 reiteratingobj
9definesdefineVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 branchesdet
11legislativelegislativeADJDegree=Pos16 branchesamod
12,,PUNCT_13 executivepunct
13executiveexecutiveADJDegree=Pos11 legislativeconj
14andandCCONJ_15 judicialcc
15judicialjudicialADJDegree=Pos11 legislativeconj
16branchesbranchNOUNNumber=Plur9 definesobj
17ofofADP_18 governmentcase
18governmentgovernmentNOUNNumber=Sing16 branchesnmod
19andandCCONJ_20 establishescc
20establishesestablishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 definesconj
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 legislaturedet
22legislaturelegislatureNOUNNumber=Sing20 establishesobj
23andandCCONJ_24 bestowscc
24bestowsbestowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin9 definesconj
25uponuponADP_26 itcase
26ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 bestowsobl
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 powerdet
28powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing24 bestowsobj
29ofofSCONJ_30 enactingmark
30enactingenactVERBVerbForm=Ger28 poweracl
31lawslawNOUNNumber=Plur30 enactingobj
32..PUNCT_9 definespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reiterate speech: othergerundthe Declaration of Rightsthe king objtree rules
2definepresentthe legislative branches of governmentvn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
3establishpresentthe legislaturevn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legislature=Patient
4bestowpresentthe powerupon legislaturetree rules
5enactgerundthe power not said herelawsvn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=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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