Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 65
The land tax was to be paid in swine.
What happens: pay · To what, where: land tax, swine
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 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tax | compound |
| 3 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 paid | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 paid | aux:pass |
| 7 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 swine | case |
| 9 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 paid | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past · passive | the land tax | swine | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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