Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 28
The poison again entered into the soul of the king and his anger grew hot within him.
Who acts: poison, anger, king · What happens: enter, grow, anger · To what, where: soul
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 (poison, anger, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poison | det |
| 2 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 entered | advmod |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 soul | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soul | det |
| 7 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soul | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 anger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grew | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the poison | the soul of the king | again | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into soul=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | grow | past | king's anger | within king; hot property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | anger | king | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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