Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 57
There is a very large concession on the part of the king and the high chiefs who constituted his advisers, and a correspondingly large increase of privileges on the part of the common people.
Who acts: large concession, high chiefs · What happens: be, constitute · To what, where: advisers
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 (large concession, high chiefs), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 concession | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 large | advmod |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 concession | amod |
| 6 | concession | concession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 part | det |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 concession | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 part | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chiefs | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chiefs | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chiefs | amod |
| 16 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 part | conj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 constituted | nsubj |
| 18 | constituted | constitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 chiefs | acl:relcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 advisers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | advisers | adviser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 constituted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 increase | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 increase | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 increase | det |
| 24 | correspondingly | correspondingly | ADV | _ | 25 large | advmod |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 increase | amod |
| 26 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 privileges | case |
| 28 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 increase | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 part | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 part | det |
| 31 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 increase | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 people | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 34 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 people | amod |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 part | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a large concession on the part of the king and the high chiefs | there | a large increase of privileges on the part of the common people conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | constitute | past | the high chiefs | king's advisers | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme adviser=Pivot |
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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