Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 46
It was one more instance of going into the jaws of death for the sake of loyal obedience.
Who acts: opportunity, one more instance · What happens: be, go · To what, where: one more instance, jaws
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, one more instance), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 instance | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 instance | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 instance | nummod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 instance | amod |
| 5 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 instance | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 jaws | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 jaws | det |
| 10 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jaws | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sake | det |
| 15 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 going | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 obedience | case |
| 17 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 obedience | amod |
| 18 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sake | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | opportunity | one more instance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | one more instance not said here | the jaws of death | for the sake of loyal obedience | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into jaw=Initial_Location |
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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