Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 62
The poll tax could be paid in arrowroot, cotton, sugar or anything which had a specific money value.
What happens: pay, have · To what, where: poll tax, arrowroot, specific money value
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: 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 | 3 tax | det |
| 2 | poll | poll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tax | compound |
| 3 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 paid | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 paid | aux:pass |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 arrowroot | case |
| 8 | arrowroot | arrowroot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cotton | punct |
| 10 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrowroot | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sugar | punct |
| 12 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrowroot | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 anything | cc |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 sugar | conj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 anything | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 value | det |
| 18 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 value | amod |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 value | compound |
| 20 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | could · passive | the poll tax | arrowroot and cotton and sugar anything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a specific money value | which nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=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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