Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 115
An impromptu mass meeting was held in the afternoon and a committee of public safety of thirteen was appointed.
What happens: hold, appoint · To what, where: impromptu mass meeting, committee
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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 meeting | det |
| 2 | impromptu | impromptu | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 meeting | amod |
| 3 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meeting | compound |
| 4 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | aux:pass |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 afternoon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 afternoon | det |
| 9 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appointed | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 committee | det |
| 12 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 safety | case |
| 14 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 safety | amod |
| 15 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 committee | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thirteen | case |
| 17 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 safety | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 appointed | aux:pass |
| 19 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 held | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past · passive | a impromptu mass meeting | afternoon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past · passive | a committee of public safety of thirteen | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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