Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 129
Five prominent men went to Washington, empowered to make a treaty of annexation with the United States.
Who acts: Five prominent men · What happens: go, empower, make · To what, where: Washington, treaty
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 (Five prominent men), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 2 | prominent | prominent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Washington | case |
| 6 | Washington | Washington | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 empowered | punct |
| 8 | empowered | empower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 empowered | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 treaty | det |
| 12 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 annexation | case |
| 14 | annexation | annexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 treaty | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 States | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 States | det |
| 17 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 States | amod |
| 18 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 annexation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Five prominent men | Washington | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to washington=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | empower | participle | Five prominent men not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Five prominent men not said here | a treaty of annexation with the United States | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset treaty=Product |
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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