Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 11
His supreme desire was to rule two islands instead of one, and he was willing to fight for it.
Who acts: supreme desire, king · What happens: be, fight, desire
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supreme desire, king), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 desire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 desire | amod |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rule | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rule | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rule | mark |
| 6 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 islands | nummod |
| 8 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rule | obj |
| 9 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 11 one | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 instead | fixed |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 rule | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 willing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 willing | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 willing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 willing | cop |
| 16 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 fight | mark |
| 18 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 willing | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fight | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's supreme desire | instead one; two islands obj; rule property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | king | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | king not said here | for desire | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | desire | king | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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