Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 59

Before the days of the Constitution and legislature the king held all power in his own hands, although the Aha-alii, or Council of Chiefs, was a factor with which he continually reckoned.

Who acts: king · What happens: hold, be, reckon · To what, where: power, own hands, factor

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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Constitution	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Constitution	det
6	Constitution	constitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 legislature	cc
8	legislature	legislature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Constitution	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 power	det
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hands	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 alii	punct
19	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 alii	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 alii	det
21	Aha	Aha	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 alii	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Aha	punct
23	alii	alii	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Council	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 Council	cc
26	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 alii	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Chiefs	case
28	Chiefs	Chief	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 Council	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 factor	punct
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 factor	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 factor	det
32	factor	factor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 reckoned	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 reckoned	nsubj
36	continually	continually	ADV	_	37 reckoned	advmod
37	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 factor	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the king	all power	king's own hands	day	the Aha alii Council of Chiefs obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent power=Theme in hand=Location
2	is a	past		a factor				tree rules
3	reckon	past	king				with a factor; continually property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 59

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Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 59