Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 80
“Treat with kindness those who devote their strength to labour, till their tattered garments are blown about their necks, while those who live with you in indolence wear the clean apparel for which the industrious poor have laboured.”
Who acts: you, those · What happens: treat, devote, tatter, blow, live, wear · To what, where: those, strength, labour, tattered garments, indolence, clean apparel
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, those), 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 | _ | 2 Treat | punct |
| 2 | Treat | treat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 kindness | case |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Treat | obl |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Treat | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 devote | nsubj |
| 7 | devote | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 those | acl:relcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 strength | nmod:poss |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 devote | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 labour | case |
| 11 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 devote | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 blown | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 blown | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 garments | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tattered | tatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 garments | amod |
| 16 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 blown | aux:pass |
| 18 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Treat | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 necks | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 necks | nmod:poss |
| 21 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 blown | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wear | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 wear | mark |
| 24 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 wear | nsubj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 those | acl:relcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 live | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 indolence | case |
| 30 | indolence | indolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 live | obl |
| 31 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Treat | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 apparel | det |
| 33 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 apparel | amod |
| 34 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wear | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 laboured | obl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 poor | det |
| 38 | industrious | industrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 poor | amod |
| 39 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 laboured | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 laboured | aux |
| 41 | laboured | labour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 apparel | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Treat | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Treat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat in a quote | imperative | you not said here | those | with kindness | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with kindness=Theme | |||
| 2 | devote in a quote | present | tenants's strength | to labour goal; who nsubj | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent strength=Theme to labour=Goal | ||||
| 3 | tatter in a quote | participle | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | blow in a quote | present · passive | tenants's tattered garments | about tenants's necks | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | indolence | with you; who nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | ||||
| 6 | wear in a quote | present | those | the clean apparel | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent apparel=Source | ||||
| 7 | labour in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the industrious poor | for the clean apparel | 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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