Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 163
They were suspicious, but the king could not readily give up his confidence.
Who acts: chief, king · What happens: be, not give up, confide · To what, where: confidence
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, king), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 suspicious | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 suspicious | cop |
| 3 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 give | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 give | advmod |
| 10 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 11 give | advmod |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suspicious | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 give | compound:prt |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 suspicious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chief | suspicious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not give up | could | the king | King's confidence | readily property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Source | |||
| 3 | confide | King | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: poss=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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