Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 110
January 14, 1893, the queen thought herself strong enough to abrogate the Constitution of the islands and promulgate a new Constitution suited to her own wishes.
Who acts: queen, new Constitution, Constitution · What happens: think, abrogate, promulgate, suit, wish · To what, where: queen, Constitution, 14 · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (queen, new Constitution, Constitution), 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 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 14 | nmod:unmarked |
| 2 | 14 | 14 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 1893 | punct |
| 4 | 1893 | 1893 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 14 | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 14 | advcl |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thought | xcomp |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 strong | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 abrogate | mark |
| 13 | abrogate | abrogate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 strong | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Constitution | det |
| 15 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 abrogate | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 islands | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 islands | det |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Constitution | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 promulgate | cc |
| 20 | promulgate | promulgate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 abrogate | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 Constitution | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Constitution | amod |
| 23 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 suited | nsubj |
| 24 | suited | suit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 promulgate | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 wishes | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 wishes | amod |
| 28 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 suited | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 14 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the queen | queen | strong property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme | |||
| 2 | abrogate | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | the Constitution of the islands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promulgate speech: other | infinitive | the queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | suit | past | a new Constitution | to Constitution's own wishes | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wish | Constitution | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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