Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 16

He slighted him in all ways possible and made the fact very evident that he had no confidence in him.

Who acts: Kahahana · What happens: slight, make, have · To what, where: Oahu, ways, fact, confidence

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slighted	nsubj
2	slighted	slight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slighted	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 ways	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ways	det
6	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slighted	obl
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slighted	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slighted	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fact	det
11	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 evident	advmod
13	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 evident	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 confidence	det
18	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slighted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slight	past	Kahahana	Oahu	all ways		tree rules
2	make	past	Kahahana not said here	the fact		evident property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fact=Product
3	have	past	Kahahana	no confidence		in Oahu	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 16

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Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 16