Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 54
Yet the wisdom of doing what was asked was not clear.
Who acts: wisdom · What happens: do, ask, not 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 (wisdom), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 11 clear | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wisdom | det |
| 3 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clear | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 doing | mark |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wisdom | acl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | aux:pass |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doing | ccomp |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 clear | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 clear | advmod |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | the wisdom not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | what nsubj:pass | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | the wisdom | clear 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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