Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 50
It was a strong appeal to their honour.
Who acts: number, bestowal · What happens: be, honour · To what, where: strong appeal
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 (number, bestowal), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 appeal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 appeal | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 appeal | amod |
| 5 | appeal | appeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 honour | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 honour | nmod:poss |
| 8 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeal | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | number | a strong appeal | to bestowal's honour | tree rules | |||
| 2 | honour | bestowal | nom honour «state 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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