Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 14
When Kahahana returned to Oahu he did not hesitate to show his enmity toward the high priest.
Who acts: Kahahana · What happens: return, not hesitate, show · To what, where: Oahu, enmity
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kahahana), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Kahahana | Kahahana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hesitate | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Oahu | case |
| 5 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 hesitate | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hesitate | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hesitate | advmod |
| 9 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 show | mark |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hesitate | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 enmity | nmod:poss |
| 13 | enmity | enmity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obj |
| 14 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 17 priest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 priest | amod |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 show | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Kahahana | Oahu | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to oahu=Result | ||||
| 2 | not hesitate | past · do-support | Kahahana | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | Kahahana not said here | Kahahana's enmity | toward the high priest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent enmity=Recipient |
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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