Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 112
She prorogued the Legislature in the forenoon and attempted to install her new Constitution.
Who acts: Constitution · What happens: prorogue, attempt, install · To what, where: Legislature, forenoon, new Constitution
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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 prorogued | nsubj |
| 2 | prorogued | prorogue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Legislature | det |
| 4 | Legislature | legislature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prorogued | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forenoon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forenoon | det |
| 7 | forenoon | forenoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prorogued | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 attempted | cc |
| 9 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 prorogued | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 install | mark |
| 11 | install | install | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 attempted | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Constitution | nmod:poss |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Constitution | amod |
| 14 | Constitution | Constitution | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 install | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prorogued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prorogue | past | Constitution | the Legislature | the forenoon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attempt | past | Constitution not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | install not said to happen | to-infinitive | Constitution not said here | Constitution's new Constitution | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constitution=Theme |
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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