Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 52
It was always known that Laa would return to Tahiti, and yet many inducements were placed before him to lead him to stay.
Who acts: Laa, Tahiti · What happens: know, return, place, lead, stay · To what, where: decision, Tahiti, many inducements
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 (Laa, Tahiti), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 known | advmod |
| 4 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 6 | Laa | Laa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 return | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 return | aux |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 known | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Tahiti | case |
| 10 | Tahiti | Tahiti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 placed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 many | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 inducements | amod |
| 15 | inducements | inducement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 placed | aux:pass |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 known | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 placed | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lead | mark |
| 21 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 placed | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lead | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stay | mark |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 lead | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past · passive | decision | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | would | Laa | Tahiti | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tahiti=Result | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | many inducements | before Tahiti | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lead | to-infinitive | Tahiti | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | Tahiti not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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