Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 70
Yet thus reads a part of the enactment of 1840:
What happens: read · To what, where: part
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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 reads | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 reads | advmod |
| 3 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 part | det |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reads | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 enactment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 enactment | det |
| 8 | enactment | enactment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 1840 | case |
| 10 | 1840 | 1840 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 enactment | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 reads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | a part of the enactment of 1840 | thus property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic |
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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