Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 109
Then came the turbulent times of internal dissension through the reign of Kalakaua and that of his sister, Liliuokalani, resulting in the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.
What happens: come, result, overthrow · To what, where: reign, overthrow, monarchy
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 times | det |
| 4 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dissension | case |
| 7 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dissension | amod |
| 8 | dissension | dissension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 times | nmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 reign | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reign | det |
| 11 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kalakaua | case |
| 13 | Kalakaua | Kalakaua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reign | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sister | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sister | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sister | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reign | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Liliuokalani | punct |
| 20 | Liliuokalani | Liliuokalani | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sister | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 resulting | punct |
| 22 | resulting | result | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 overthrow | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 overthrow | det |
| 25 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 resulting | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 monarchy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 monarchy | det |
| 28 | monarchy | monarchy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overthrow | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1893 | case |
| 30 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 resulting | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the reign of Kalakaua and Kalakaua's sister that | then; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through reign=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | result | gerund | the overthrow of the monarchy | in 1893 | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in overthrow=Location | ||||
| 3 | overthrow | the monarchy | nom overthrow «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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