Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 108
The young king returned to Oahu with great faith in his enemy and a likewise great unbelief in his friends.
What happens: return · To what, where: young king, Oahu
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Oahu | case |
| 6 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 faith | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 faith | amod |
| 9 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 enemy | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 faith | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 unbelief | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 unbelief | det |
| 15 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 unbelief | amod |
| 17 | unbelief | unbelief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enemy | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 friends | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 friends | nmod:poss |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 unbelief | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the young king not said here | Oahu | with great faith in King's enemy and a great unbelief in King's friends | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to oahu=Result |
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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