Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 123
“Second—A Provisional Government for the control and management of public affairs and the protection of public peace is hereby established, to exist until terms of union with the United States of America have been negotiated and agreed upon.”
What happens: establish, exist, negotiate, agree, manage, protect · To what, where: Provisional Government, public affairs, public peace, union
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 established | punct |
| 2 | Second | second | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 established | advmod |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Second | punct |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Government | det |
| 5 | Provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Government | amod |
| 6 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 established | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 control | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 control | det |
| 9 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Government | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 management | cc |
| 11 | management | management | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 control | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 affairs | case |
| 13 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 affairs | amod |
| 14 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 management | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 protection | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 protection | det |
| 17 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 control | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 peace | case |
| 19 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 peace | amod |
| 20 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 protection | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 established | aux:pass |
| 22 | hereby | hereby | ADV | _ | 23 established | advmod |
| 23 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 exist | punct |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 exist | mark |
| 26 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 established | conj |
| 27 | until | until | ADP | _ | 28 terms | case |
| 28 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 negotiated | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 union | case |
| 30 | union | union | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 terms | nmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 States | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 States | det |
| 33 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 States | amod |
| 34 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 union | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 America | case |
| 36 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 States | nmod |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 negotiated | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 negotiated | aux:pass |
| 39 | negotiated | negotiate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 exist | advcl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 agreed | cc |
| 41 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 negotiated | conj |
| 42 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 agreed | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 negotiated | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 established | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | establish in a quote | present · passive | a Provisional Government for the control and management of public affairs and the protection of public peace | hereby, second property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | exist in a quote | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | negotiate in a quote | present · perfect · passive | until terms of union with the United States of America | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree in a quote | participle | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | manage in a quote | public affairs | nom management «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | protect in a quote | public peace | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | term in a quote | union with the United States of America | nom term «communication 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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