Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 45
He could not assume any self-sufficient aspect and not care whether the other chiefs were well pleased or not.
Who acts: Kahahana, other chiefs · What happens: not assume, not care, be · To what, where: sufficient aspect
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 (Kahahana, other chiefs), 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 assume | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 assume | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 assume | advmod |
| 4 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 aspect | det |
| 6 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sufficient | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 8 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 aspect | amod |
| 9 | aspect | aspect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assume | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 care | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 care | advmod |
| 12 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 assume | conj |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 pleased | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chiefs | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chiefs | amod |
| 16 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pleased | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pleased | cop |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 pleased | advmod |
| 19 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 care | ccomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 not | cc |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 pleased | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 assume | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not assume | could | Kahahana | any sufficient aspect | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not care | infinitive | Kahahana not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the other chiefs | pleased, well 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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