Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 27
This was as far as Kahekili dared to go in his demands.
Who acts: This, Kahekili · What happens: be, dare, go, demand · To what, where: demands
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 (This, Kahekili), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 far | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 far | cop |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 dared | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 dared | mark |
| 6 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dared | nsubj |
| 7 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dared | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 demands | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 demands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dare | past | Kahekili | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Kahekili not said here | Kahekili's demands | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in demand=Location | ||||
| 4 | demand | Kahekili | nom demand «communication 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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