Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 27
The call to the sea was hereditary and with eagerness he grasped the opportunity.
Who acts: call, Kila · What happens: be, grasp · To what, where: opportunity
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 (call, Kila), 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 call | det |
| 2 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hereditary | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hereditary | cop |
| 7 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grasped | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eagerness | case |
| 10 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grasped | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grasped | nsubj |
| 12 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hereditary | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 opportunity | det |
| 14 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grasped | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hereditary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the call to the sea | hereditary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grasp | past | Kila | the opportunity | with eagerness | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent opportunity=Experiencer with eagerness=Instrument |
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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