Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 85
This law condemns the old system of the king, chiefs, land agents and tax officers.
Who acts: law · What happens: condemn · To what, where: old system
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 (law), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 law | det |
| 2 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 condemns | nsubj |
| 3 | condemns | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 system | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 system | amod |
| 6 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 condemns | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 system | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chiefs | punct |
| 11 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 system | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 agents | punct |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 agents | compound |
| 14 | agents | agent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 system | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 officers | cc |
| 16 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 officers | compound |
| 17 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 agents | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | present | this law | the old system of the king and chiefs | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme |
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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