Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 63
The most important exemption looked toward the preservation of large families.
Who acts: important exemption · What happens: look, preserve · To what, where: large families
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 (important exemption), 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 | 4 exemption | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 important | advmod |
| 3 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exemption | amod |
| 4 | exemption | exemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 preservation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 preservation | det |
| 8 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 families | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 families | amod |
| 11 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 preservation | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the important exemption | toward the preservation of large families | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward preservation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | preserve | large families | nom preservation «act 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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