Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 67

The labour tax would be considered an exceedingly heavy burden by the public of the present time and yet that labour law was very much less oppressive than the semi-civilisation which preceded it.

Who acts: public, labour law, semi-civilisation · What happens: consider, be, proceed · To what, where: labour tax, semi-civilisation

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 (public, labour law, semi-civilisation), 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	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tax	compound
3	tax	tax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 considered	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 considered	aux:pass
6	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 burden	det
8	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	9 heavy	advmod
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burden	amod
10	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	xcomp
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 public	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 public	det
13	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 considered	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 public	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 oppressive	cc
19	yet	yet	ADV	_	27 oppressive	advmod
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 law	det
21	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 law	compound
22	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 oppressive	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 oppressive	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 less	advmod
26	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 oppressive	advmod
27	oppressive	oppressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 considered	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	30 semi-civilisation	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 semi-civilisation	det
30	semi-civilisation	semi-civilisation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 oppressive	obl
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 preceded	nsubj
32	preceded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 semi-civilisation	acl:relcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 preceded	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consider	would · passive	the public of the present time	the labour tax		a heavy burden xcomp	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute
2	is	past	that labour law		yet	than the semi-civilisation; less, oppressive property	tree rules
3	proceed	past	the semi-civilisation	semi-civilisation			tree rules

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 67

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 67