Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 61
In the act of the Legislature and House of Nobles signed by the king November 9, 1840, three forms of taxation are specified—the poll tax, the land tax, and the labour tax.
Who acts: Legislature · What happens: sign, specify, act, form · To what, where: three forms, act, taxation
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 (Legislature), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 act | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 act | det |
| 3 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 specified | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Legislature | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Legislature | det |
| 6 | Legislature | Legislature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 act | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 House | cc |
| 8 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Legislature | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Nobles | case |
| 10 | Nobles | Noble | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 House | nmod |
| 11 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 specified | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 9 | obl |
| 15 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 9 | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 specified | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 1840 | punct |
| 18 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 9 | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 1840 | punct |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 forms | nummod |
| 21 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 specified | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 taxation | case |
| 23 | taxation | taxation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forms | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 specified | aux:pass |
| 25 | specified | specify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 tax | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tax | det |
| 28 | poll | poll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tax | compound |
| 29 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 specified | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tax | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tax | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tax | compound |
| 33 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tax | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 tax | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 tax | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tax | det |
| 37 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tax | compound |
| 38 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tax | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 specified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | specify | present · passive | three forms of taxation | the act of the Legislature and House of Nobles | the poll tax and the land tax and the labour tax obl; 9 by the king November parataxis | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | act | the Legislature and House of Nobles | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | form | taxation | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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