Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 74
While the man who was lazy and idle one day was fined two days’ extra labour.
Who acts: man, two days · What happens: be, fine, labour · 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, two days), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 fined | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lazy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lazy | cop |
| 6 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 idle | cc |
| 8 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lazy | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 day | nummod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 idle | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fined | aux:pass |
| 12 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 days | nummod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 labour | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 days | case |
| 16 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 labour | amod |
| 17 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fined | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the man not said here | day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fine | past · passive | the man | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | labour | two days | tree rules |
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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