Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 20
After nearly two years of distrust and dissension in the court of the king of Oahu, the king of Maui decided to attempt the conquest of his young friend’s kingdom.
Who acts: king · What happens: decide, attempt · To what, where: conquest
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 two | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 decided | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 distrust | case |
| 6 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 decided | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dissension | cc |
| 8 | dissension | dissension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distrust | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dissension | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 court | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Oahu | case |
| 16 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 king | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 decided | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Maui | case |
| 21 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 22 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 attempt | mark |
| 24 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 decided | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 conquest | det |
| 26 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attempt | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 kingdom | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 friend | nmod:poss |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 friend | amod |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 friend | case |
| 32 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 conquest | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the king of Maui | year | of distrust and dissension in the court of the king of Oahu | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | attempt not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king of Maui not said here | the conquest of king's young friend's kingdom | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Eventuality |
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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