Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 78
“As for the idler, let the industrious man put him to shame, and sound his name from one end of the country to the other.”
Who acts: you, industrious man, man · What happens: let, put, shame, sound, name · To what, where: industrious man, man, name, one end
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 (you, industrious man, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 for | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 idler | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 idler | det |
| 5 | idler | idler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 idler | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 let | obj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 shame | mark |
| 14 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 put | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sound | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sound | cc |
| 17 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 name | nmod:poss |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 end | nummod |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 other | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sound | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the industrious man | for the idler | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put in a quote | infinitive | the industrious man not said here | man | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | ||||
| 3 | shame in a quote | to-infinitive | the industrious man not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sound in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | man's name | from one end of the country | to the other | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme | ||
| 5 | name in a quote | man | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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