Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 58
The consul was an open advocate of English annexation, and reported a dangerous state of affairs to England.
Who acts: consul · What happens: be, report · To what, where: open advocate, dangerous state
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 (consul), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 consul | det |
| 2 | consul | consul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advocate | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 advocate | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 advocate | det |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 advocate | amod |
| 6 | advocate | advocate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 annexation | case |
| 8 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 annexation | amod |
| 9 | annexation | annexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advocate | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reported | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reported | cc |
| 12 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 advocate | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 state | det |
| 14 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 state | amod |
| 15 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reported | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 affairs | case |
| 17 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 state | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 England | case |
| 19 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 affairs | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 advocate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the consul | a open advocate | of English annexation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | report | past | a dangerous state of affairs to England | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/22/58/