Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 99
The people did not first call for a removal of them.
Who acts: people · What happens: not call, remove · To what, where: chiefs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 call | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 call | advmod |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 call | advmod |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 removal | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 removal | det |
| 9 | removal | removal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 removal | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call | past · do-support | the people | for a removal of chiefs; first property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for removal=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | remove | chiefs = chief | nom removal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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