Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 107
But this personal kindness must not blind the eyes of the young king to the fact that his high priest was practically a traitor.
Who acts: high priest · What happens: be · To what, where: traitor
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 (high priest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 blind | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kindness | det |
| 3 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kindness | amod |
| 4 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blind | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 blind | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 blind | advmod |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eyes | det |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blind | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 king | amod |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 fact | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fact | det |
| 16 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 traitor | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 priest | nmod:poss |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 priest | amod |
| 20 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 traitor | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 traitor | cop |
| 22 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 24 traitor | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 traitor | det |
| 24 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fact | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | King's high priest | a traitor | practically property | tree rules |
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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