Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 94
Kahekili and his advisers thought this was an excellent opportunity to renew influence over Kahahana.
Who acts: Kahekili, this · What happens: think, be, renew · To what, where: excellent opportunity, influence, Kahahana · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kahekili, this), 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 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 advisers | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 advisers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | advisers | adviser | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kahekili | conj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 opportunity | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opportunity | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opportunity | det |
| 9 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 opportunity | amod |
| 10 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 renew | mark |
| 12 | renew | renew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 opportunity | acl |
| 13 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 renew | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 Kahahana | case |
| 15 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 renew | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Kahekili and Kahekili's advisers | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a excellent opportunity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | renew | to-infinitive | Kahekili and Kahekili's advisers not said here | influence | Kahahana | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent influence=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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