Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 26

This servant came with an appearance of great concern and told Kahahana very confidentially that the priest had once more sent word to the Maui king that he was ready to turn over Oahu to him and aid in the overthrow of Kahahana, but the Maui king felt such great affection for his friend on Oahu that he could not accept such treachery.

Who acts: servant, priest, king, Maui king · What happens: come, tell, have, be, turn over, feel · To what, where: Kahahana, sent word, Oahu, king, such great affection, such treachery · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (servant, priest, king, Maui 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 appearance	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 appearance	det
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 concern	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 concern	amod
9	concern	concern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appearance	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 confidentially	advmod
14	confidentially	confidentially	ADV	_	11 told	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 priest	det
17	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	advcl
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 sent	advmod
21	sent	sent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 word	amod
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 king	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
25	Maui	Maui	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 king	compound
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 word	nmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 ready	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ready	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ready	cop
30	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 turn	mark
32	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 ready	xcomp
33	over	over	ADP	_	32 turn	compound:prt
34	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 turn	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 turn	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 aid	cc
38	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 him	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 overthrow	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 overthrow	det
41	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 aid	nmod
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Kahahana	case
43	Kahahana	Kahahana	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 overthrow	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 felt	punct
45	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 felt	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 king	det
47	Maui	Maui	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 king	compound
48	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 felt	nsubj
49	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
50	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 affection	amod
51	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 affection	amod
52	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 felt	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 friend	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 friend	nmod:poss
55	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 felt	obl
56	on	on	ADP	_	57 Oahu	case
57	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 friend	nmod
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 accept	mark
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 accept	nsubj
60	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 accept	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 accept	advmod
62	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 felt	advcl
63	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 treachery	amod
64	treachery	treachery	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 accept	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	this servant			with a appearance of great concern	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	this servant not said here		Kahahana	confidentially property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kahahana=Recipient
3	have	past	the priest	sent word		to the Maui king	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
4	is	past	king			ready property	tree rules
5	turn over	to-infinitive	king not said here	Oahu	king		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent oahu=Theme to he=Recipient
6	feel	past	the Maui king	such great affection		for king's friend on Oahu	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent affection=Location for friend=Theme
7	not accept	could	king	such treachery			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treachery=Theme
8	overthrow			Kahahana			nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=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 26