Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 90
This was to apply especially to any community’s desire concerning fences, animals at large, and roads.
Who acts: This, community · What happens: be, desire
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 (This, community), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 apply | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 apply | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 apply | mark |
| 4 | apply | apply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 10 desire | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 desire | case |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 community | det |
| 8 | community | community | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desire | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 community | case |
| 10 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apply | obl |
| 11 | concerning | concerning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fences | amod |
| 12 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 desire | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 animals | punct |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fences | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 large | case |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 animals | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 roads | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 roads | cc |
| 19 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 desire | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 apply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | to any community's desire and concerning fences and animals at large and roads; apply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | desire | any community | nom desire «feeling 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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