Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 118
Monday, January 16, over 1,300 citizens gathered in the armory and authorised this committee of public safety to take such steps as might be necessary.
Who acts: 1,300 citizens · What happens: gather, authorise, take, be · To what, where: armory, committee, such steps
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 (1,300 citizens), 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 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 16 | punct |
| 3 | January | January | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 16 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Monday | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 1,300 | advmod |
| 7 | 1,300 | 1,300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 citizens | nummod |
| 8 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gathered | nsubj |
| 9 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 armory | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 armory | det |
| 12 | armory | armory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gathered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 authorised | cc |
| 14 | authorised | authorise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gathered | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 committee | det |
| 16 | committee | committee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 authorised | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 safety | case |
| 18 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 safety | amod |
| 19 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 committee | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 authorised | advcl |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 steps | amod |
| 23 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 necessary | mark |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 necessary | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 necessary | cop |
| 27 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 take | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | 1,300 citizens | the armory | monday | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | authorise | participle | 1,300 citizens not said here | this committee of public safety | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | 1,300 citizens not said here | such steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | might | 1,300 citizens not said here | necessary property | tree rules |
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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