Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 45

If any opportunity arose for consulting the omens in regard to the future welfare of Oahu it was his duty to give the benefit of his wisdom to his people.

Who acts: opportunity · What happens: arise, consult, be, give · To what, where: omens, regard, duty, benefit, people

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 (opportunity), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 arose	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 opportunity	det
3	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	nsubj
4	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 consulting	mark
6	consulting	consult	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 arose	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 omens	det
8	omens	omen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consulting	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 regard	case
10	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consulting	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 welfare	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 welfare	det
13	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 welfare	amod
14	welfare	welfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 duty	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Oahu	case
16	Oahu	Oahu	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 welfare	nmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 duty	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 duty	cop
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 duty	nmod:poss
20	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 regard	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 duty	acl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 benefit	det
24	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wisdom	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wisdom	nmod:poss
27	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 benefit	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 people	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 people	nmod:poss
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 give	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past	any opportunity					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	consult	gerund	any opportunity not said here	the omens		regard and Oahu's duty		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omen=Theme
3	is a	past	opportunity	Oahu's duty			to the future welfare of Oahu; Oahu nmod:poss	tree rules
4	give	to-infinitive	any opportunity not said here	the benefit of Oahu's wisdom	Oahu's people			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme to people=Recipient

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 45