Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 52
But other chiefs were doubtful of the expediency of this action.
Who acts: other chiefs · What happens: be
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 doubtful | cc |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chiefs | amod |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 doubtful | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doubtful | cop |
| 5 | doubtful | doubtful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 expediency | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 expediency | det |
| 8 | expediency | expediency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doubtful | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 action | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 action | det |
| 11 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 expediency | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubtful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | other chiefs | of the expediency of this action; doubtful 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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