Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 46
Not only did the romance of far-away lands and mighty deeds attract attention, but his personal appearance and royal bearing seemed to have conquered all who came near.
Who acts: romance, personal appearance, away lands · What happens: not do, attract, seem, conquer, come, romance · To what, where: attention, all
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 (romance, personal appearance, away lands), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 romance | det |
| 5 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attract | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 far | punct |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 romance | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 deeds | cc |
| 12 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deeds | amod |
| 13 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lands | conj |
| 14 | attract | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 15 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attract | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seemed | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 seemed | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 appearance | amod |
| 20 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bearing | cc |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bearing | amod |
| 23 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 appearance | conj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 conquered | mark |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 conquered | aux |
| 27 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 conquered | obj |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 all | acl:relcl |
| 31 | near | near | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | attract | present | the romance of away lands and mighty deeds | attention | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | romance's personal appearance and royal bearing | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | conquer | to-infinitive · perfect | romance's personal appearance and royal bearing not said here | all | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | who nsubj; near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | romance | away lands and mighty deeds | nom romance «state 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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