Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 49
He cheered them and encouraged them to prepare for new endeavours.
Who acts: king, love · What happens: cheer, encourage, prepare · To what, where: love
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 (king, love), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cheered | nsubj |
| 2 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cheered | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 encouraged | cc |
| 5 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cheered | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 encouraged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 prepare | mark |
| 8 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 encouraged | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 endeavours | case |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 endeavours | amod |
| 11 | endeavours | endeavour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prepare | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cheered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | past | king | love | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | encourage | past | king not said here | love | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | love not said here | for new endeavours | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for endeavour=Beneficiary |
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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