Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 72
Fines were exacted from the late and lazy.
What happens: exact · To what, where: Fines
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 | Fines | fine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 exacted | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exacted | aux:pass |
| 3 | exacted | exact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 late | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 late | det |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 exacted | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lazy | cc |
| 8 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 late | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exacted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exact | past · passive | Fines | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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