Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 44
He felt that he could not refuse attendance upon the king in this round of public sacrifices.
Who acts: future · What happens: feel, not refuse · To what, where: attendance, round
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 (future), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 refuse | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 refuse | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 refuse | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 refuse | advmod |
| 7 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 8 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refuse | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refuse | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 round | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 round | det |
| 14 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refuse | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sacrifices | case |
| 16 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sacrifices | amod |
| 17 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 round | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | future | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not refuse | could | future | attendance | this round of public sacrifices | upon the king | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendance=Theme |
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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