Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 46
His power to fulfil his agreement depended upon the willingness of the council of high chiefs to ratify what he had promised.
Who acts: power, Kahahana · What happens: fulfil, depend, ratify, promise, agree · To what, where: agreement
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 (power, Kahahana), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 power | nmod:poss |
| 2 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depended | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fulfil | mark |
| 4 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 power | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 agreement | nmod:poss |
| 6 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fulfil | obj |
| 7 | depended | depend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 willingness | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 willingness | det |
| 10 | willingness | willingness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 depended | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 council | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 willingness | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chiefs | case |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chiefs | amod |
| 16 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 council | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ratify | mark |
| 18 | ratify | ratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 depended | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 promised | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 promised | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 promised | aux |
| 22 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 ratify | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 depended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | to-infinitive | Kahahana's power not said here | Kahahana's agreement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depend | past | Kahahana's power | upon the willingness of the council of high chiefs | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ratify | to-infinitive | Kahahana's power not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | Kahahana | what obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 5 | agree | Kahahana | nom agreement «communication intransitive»: 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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