Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 91
“Though no such law can be at variance with the general spirit of the laws of the nation nor can there be any oppressive law nor one of evil tendency.”
Who acts: such law · What happens: be · To what, where: variance, oppressive law
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 (such 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 variance | punct |
| 2 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 variance | mark |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 law | det |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 law | amod |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 variance | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 variance | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 variance | cop |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 variance | case |
| 9 | variance | variance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 spirit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spirit | det |
| 12 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spirit | amod |
| 13 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 variance | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 laws | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 laws | det |
| 16 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spirit | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nation | det |
| 19 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laws | nmod |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 law | cc |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 law | aux |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 law | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 law | cop |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 law | det |
| 25 | oppressive | oppressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 law | amod |
| 26 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 variance | conj |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 one | cc |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 law | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tendency | case |
| 30 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tendency | amod |
| 31 | tendency | tendency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 one | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 variance | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 variance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can | no such law | variance nor any oppressive law | with the general spirit of the laws of the nation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | can | no such law not said here | any oppressive law | there | one of evil tendency conj | 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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