Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 69
Twelve days’ public labour out of every month would be considered exceedingly oppressive if exacted by the government of to-day.
What happens: consider, exact · To what, where: public labour
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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 considered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 2 days | case |
| 4 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 labour | amod |
| 5 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 considered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 month | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 month | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 month | det |
| 9 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 labour | nmod |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 considered | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 considered | aux:pass |
| 12 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 14 oppressive | advmod |
| 14 | oppressive | oppressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 exacted | mark |
| 16 | exacted | exact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 considered | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 government | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 government | det |
| 19 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exacted | obl:agent |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 to | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 government | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | would · passive | public labour out every month | day | oppressive property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 2 | exact a condition, not said to happen | participle | the government of day obl:agent | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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