Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 88
The failure to win the desired grant rankled in his heart and he still nourished the purpose of securing a foothold on the island of Oahu.
Who acts: failure, purpose · What happens: win, desire, rankle, nourish, secure · To what, where: desired grant, heart, purpose, foothold, island
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 (failure, purpose), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 failure | det |
| 2 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nourished | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 win | mark |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 failure | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grant | det |
| 6 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grant | amod |
| 7 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | obj |
| 8 | rankled | rankle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 grant | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rankled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 nourished | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nourished | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 nourished | advmod |
| 15 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 purpose | det |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nourished | obj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 securing | mark |
| 19 | securing | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 purpose | acl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 foothold | det |
| 21 | foothold | foothold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 securing | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 island | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 island | det |
| 24 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 securing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Oahu | case |
| 26 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 island | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 nourished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the failure not said here | the desired grant | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | desire | participle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 3 | rankle | participle | the desired grant not said here | failure's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | nourish | past | the failure | the purpose | still | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Patient | |||
| 5 | secure | gerund | the purpose not said here | a foothold | the island of Oahu | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent foothold=Theme on island=Source |
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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