Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 242
Life was too precious to be risked in that brother’s presence.
Who acts: Life · What happens: be, risk · To what, where: presence
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 (Life), 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 | Life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 precious | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 precious | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 precious | advmod |
| 4 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 risked | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 risked | aux:pass |
| 7 | risked | risk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 precious | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 presence | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 brother | det |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 presence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 12 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 risked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 precious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Life | precious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | risk | to-infinitive · passive | Life not said here | that brother's presence | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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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