Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 255
To have turned away from the prince, letting his face look down, would have been the sign of immediate death of his visitor.
Who acts: face, visitor · What happens: turn away, let, look down, be, die · To what, where: face, sign
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 (face, visitor), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 turned | mark |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | aux |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 letting | punct |
| 9 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 turned | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 letting | obj |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 letting | xcomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 look | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sign | punct |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 sign | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sign | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 sign | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sign | det |
| 19 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 21 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 death | amod |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sign | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 visitor | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 visitor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 death | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | to-infinitive · perfect | from the prince; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from prince=Source | |||||
| 2 | let | gerund | king's face | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look down | infinitive | king's face not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | would · perfect | the sign | of immediate death of king's visitor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die | king's visitor | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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