Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 71

“When public labour is to be done of such a nature as to be a common benefit to king and people, and therefore, twelve days in a month are devoted to labour; then all persons, whether connected with the land or not, and also all servants shall go to the work or pay a fine of half a dollar a day.”

Who acts: common benefit, servants · What happens: do, be, devote, connect, go, pay · To what, where: public labour, common benefit, twelve days, labour, persons, work

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 (common benefit, servants), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 done	advmod
3	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 labour	amod
4	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux:pass
6	to	to	PART	_	8 done	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 nature	case
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 nature	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nature	det
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	obl
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 benefit	mark
14	to	to	PART	_	18 benefit	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 benefit	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 benefit	det
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 benefit	amod
18	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 king	mark
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 benefit	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 people	cc
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 king	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 devoted	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 devoted	cc
25	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	33 devoted	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 therefore	punct
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 days	nummod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 devoted	nsubj:pass
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 month	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 month	det
31	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 days	nmod
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 devoted	aux:pass
33	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 benefit	acl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 labour	case
35	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 devoted	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 persons	punct
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 persons	advmod
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 persons	det
39	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 done	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 connected	punct
41	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	42 connected	mark
42	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 persons	acl
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 land	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 land	det
45	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 connected	obl
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 not	cc
47	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 land	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 go	cc
50	also	also	ADV	_	54 go	advmod
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 servants	det
52	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 go	nsubj
53	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 go	aux
54	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 persons	parataxis
55	to	to	ADP	_	57 work	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 work	det
57	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 go	obl
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 pay	cc
59	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 go	conj
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 fine	det
61	fine	fine	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 pay	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	65 dollar	case
63	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	65 dollar	det:predet
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 dollar	det
65	dollar	dollar	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 fine	nmod
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 day	det
67	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 pay	obl:unmarked
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct
69	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · passive		public labour			of such nature; all persons obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is a in a quote	to-infinitive		a common benefit			king and people appos	tree rules
3	devote in a quote	present · passive	a common benefit not said here	twelve days in a month			to labour goal; therefore property	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to labour=Goal
4	connect in a quote	participle		all persons not said here			with the land	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with land=Co-Patient
5	go in a quote	shall	all servants		the work			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location
6	pay in a quote	infinitive	all servants not said here	a fine of half dollar		day		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Asset
7	fine in a quote			half dollar				nom fine «possession 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 71

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 71