Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 53
They desired to please their king and do all that honour required.
Who acts: bestowal · What happens: desire, please, do, require · To what, where: king, honour
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 please | mark |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desired | xcomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 king | nmod:poss |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 please | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 please | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 honour | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 honour | det |
| 11 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 12 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 honour | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | bestowal | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | please not said to happen | to-infinitive | bestowal not said here | bestowal's king | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | bestowal not said here | all honour | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | require | participle | all honour not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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