Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 56
The laws which were passed after this Constitution was promulgated are both curious and instructive.
Who acts: laws · What happens: pass, promulgate, be · To what, where: laws, 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: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 laws | det |
| 2 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux:pass |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 laws | acl |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 promulgated | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 Constitution | det |
| 8 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 promulgated | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 promulgated | aux:pass |
| 10 | promulgated | promulgate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | advcl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 curious | cop |
| 12 | both | both | ADV | _ | 13 curious | advmod |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 instructive | cc |
| 15 | instructive | instructive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 curious | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | the laws | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | promulgate speech: other | past · passive | this Constitution | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the laws | both, curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the laws not said here | tree rules |
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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