Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 6
February 21, 1794, he entered into an agreement with Ka-meha-meha I and his Council of Chiefs to receive the islands under the protection of Great Britain.
Who acts: Vancouver · What happens: enter, receive, protect · To what, where: 21, agreement, islands, protection, Great Britain
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 (Vancouver), 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 | February | February | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 21 | nmod:unmarked |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 entered | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 4 | 1794 | 1794 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 21 | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 21 | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 entered | nsubj |
| 7 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 agreement | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 agreement | det |
| 10 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entered | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Ka | case |
| 12 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 agreement | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meha | punct |
| 14 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Ka | dep |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 meha | punct |
| 16 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 14 meha | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 Council | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Council | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Council | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meha | flat |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Chiefs | case |
| 22 | Chiefs | Chief | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Council | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 receive | mark |
| 24 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 meha | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 islands | det |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 receive | obj |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 protection | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 protection | det |
| 29 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 islands | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Britain | case |
| 31 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Britain | flat |
| 32 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 protection | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Vancouver | 21 February | a agreement | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into agreement=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | Vancouver not said here | the islands | the protection of Great Britain | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent island=Theme under protection=Location | |||
| 3 | protect | Great Britain | nom protection «act 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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