Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 96
This complaint of the people, however, would have a much better grace if they with energy improved their time on their own free days; but lo! this is not the case.
Who acts: complaint, people, this · What happens: have, improve, not be, complain · To what, where: better grace, case
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 (complaint, people, this), 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 complaint | det |
| 2 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 complaint | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 complaint | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 grace | det |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 better | advmod |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 grace | amod |
| 14 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 improved | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 improved | nsubj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 energy | case |
| 18 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 improved | obl |
| 19 | improved | improve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 have | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 time | nmod:poss |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 improved | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 days | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 days | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 improved | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 case | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 case | cc |
| 29 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 35 case | discourse |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 lo | punct |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 case | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 case | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 case | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 case | det |
| 35 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | this complaint of the people | a better grace | however property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient | |||
| 2 | improve a condition, not said to happen | participle | people | day; time | with energy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with energy=Instrument | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | this | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | complain | the people | nom complaint «state intransitive»: of=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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