Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 8
The double development could not be separated.
What happens: not separate · To what, where: double development
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 development | det |
| 2 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 development | amod |
| 3 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 separated | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 separated | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 separated | aux:pass |
| 7 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not separate | could · passive | the double development | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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