Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 8
Therefore, he objected to the young chief’s acceptance of the place of ruler of the neighbouring island.
Who acts: King, young chief · What happens: object, accept · To what, where: acceptance, place
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 (King, young chief), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 objected | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Therefore | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 objected | nsubj |
| 4 | objected | object | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 acceptance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chief | amod |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 acceptance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 10 | acceptance | acceptance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 objected | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 acceptance | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ruler | case |
| 15 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 18 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 island | amod |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ruler | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 objected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | object speech: other | past | King | the young chief's acceptance of the place of ruler of the neighbouring island | therefore property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to acceptance=Recipient | |||
| 2 | accept | the young chief | the place of ruler of the neighbouring island | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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