Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 53
The seer no longer felt the compulsion of duty impelling him to seek the king.
Who acts: seer, duty · What happens: feel, impel, seek · To what, where: compulsion, seer, king
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 (seer, duty), 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 seer | det |
| 2 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 felt | advmod |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 compulsion | det |
| 7 | compulsion | compulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 duty | case |
| 9 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 compulsion | nmod |
| 10 | impelling | impel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 duty | acl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impelling | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 seek | mark |
| 13 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 impelling | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seek | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the seer | the compulsion of duty | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compulsion=Theme | |||
| 2 | impel | gerund | duty not said here | seer | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | duty not said here | the king | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=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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