Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 20
Moi-keha was held back from longed-for sea journeys by the cares of his kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home.
Who acts: kingdom, prosperous home · What happens: hold back, long, care, delight · To what, where: Moi
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kingdom, prosperous home), 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 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 keha | punct |
| 3 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | dep |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | aux:pass |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 held | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 8 longed | mark |
| 8 | longed | long | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 held | advcl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 longed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 journeys | case |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journeys | compound |
| 12 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 longed | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 cares | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cares | det |
| 15 | cares | care | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 longed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cares | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 delights | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 delights | det |
| 21 | restful | restful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 delights | amod |
| 22 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kingdom | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 home | det |
| 25 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 home | amod |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 delights | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold back | past · passive | Moi | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | long | participle | for sea journeys; by the cares of Moi's kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for journey=Theme | |||||
| 3 | care | Moi's kingdom and the restful delights of a prosperous home | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | delight | a prosperous home | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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