Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 106
He would not stand in the way of one in whom he felt so much interest.
Who acts: King · What happens: not stand, feel · To what, where: way, much interest
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 stand | advmod |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 whom | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 whom | case |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 way | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whom | acl:relcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 much | advmod |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 interest | amod |
| 16 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | would | King | the way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | King | much interest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=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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