Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 73
The man coming after 7 o’clock in the morning was fined an eighth of a dollar, and after dinner a fourth of a dollar.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, fine · To what, where: man
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 (man), 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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fined | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 o’clock | case |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 o’clock | nummod |
| 6 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 morning | det |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fined | aux:pass |
| 11 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eighth | det |
| 13 | eighth | eighth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fined | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 dollar | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dollar | det |
| 16 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eighth | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dinner | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dinner | cc |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 dinner | case |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fined | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fourth | det |
| 22 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dinner | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 dollar | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dollar | det |
| 25 | dollar | dollar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fourth | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | the man not said here | after 7 o’clock; morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fine | past · passive | the man | after dinner | a eighth of a dollar obj | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient eighth=Asset |
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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