Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 92
In 1842 an act was signed by the king and the premier, in which the evident intent is a lesson for the common people—a lesson to be enforced by contrasts.
Who acts: king, evident intent, contrasts · What happens: sign, be, enforce · To what, where: act, 1842, lesson
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 (king, evident intent, contrasts), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1842 | case |
| 2 | 1842 | 1842 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 signed | obl |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 act | det |
| 4 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 signed | aux:pass |
| 6 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 premier | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 premier | det |
| 12 | premier | premier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lesson | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lesson | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 intent | det |
| 17 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 intent | amod |
| 18 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lesson | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 lesson | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lesson | det |
| 21 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 24 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lesson | nmod |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 lesson | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 lesson | det |
| 28 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 signed | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 enforced | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 enforced | aux:pass |
| 31 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 lesson | acl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 contrasts | case |
| 33 | contrasts | contrast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 enforced | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past · passive | the king and the premier and a lesson | a act | 1842 | a lesson obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1842=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | present | the evident intent | a lesson | in the king and the premier and a lesson; for the common people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | enforce | to-infinitive · passive | contrasts | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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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