Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 55
Previously he had enacted law with the advice of his council of high chiefs.
Who acts: king · What happens: enact · To what, where: law
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 (king), 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 | Previously | previously | ADV | _ | 4 enacted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enacted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 enacted | aux |
| 4 | enacted | enact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enacted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 advice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 advice | det |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 enacted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 council | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 council | nmod:poss |
| 11 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 advice | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 chiefs | case |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chiefs | amod |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 council | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enacted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enact | past · perfect | king | law | with the advice of king's council of high chiefs; previously property | vn 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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