Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 48
His self-love and ambition were sorely stricken, but he did not pour out his wrath upon his followers.
Who acts: self love, king · What happens: be, not pour out, love · To what, where: wrath
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 (self love, 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 | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 2 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 self | punct |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stricken | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ambition | cc |
| 6 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stricken | cop |
| 8 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 9 stricken | advmod |
| 9 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pour | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 pour | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pour | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pour | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 pour | advmod |
| 15 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stricken | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pour | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pour | obj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 followers | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 followers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pour | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stricken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's self love and ambition | sorely, stricken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pour out | past · do-support | king | king's wrath | upon king's followers | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Patient | |||
| 3 | love | king | nom love «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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