Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 213
The old king seemed to have a secret feeling that the gods were fighting against him.
Who acts: old king, gods · What happens: seem, have, fight · To what, where: secret feeling
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 (old king, gods), 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 | 3 king | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seemed | nsubj |
| 4 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seemed | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feeling | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feeling | amod |
| 9 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fighting | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gods | det |
| 12 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fighting | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fighting | aux |
| 14 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 feeling | acl |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fighting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the old king | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the old king not said here | a secret feeling | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | past · progressive | the gods | a secret feeling not said here | against king | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Co-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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