Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 8
He was angry and jealous and gladly welcomed an opportunity to go to Maui as the high priest of Kahekili, the king of Maui.
Who acts: Ka · What happens: be, welcome, go · To what, where: opportunity, Maui
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 (Ka), 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 | 3 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | cop |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 jealous | cc |
| 5 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 angry | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 welcomed | cc |
| 7 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 8 welcomed | advmod |
| 8 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 angry | conj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 opportunity | det |
| 10 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welcomed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 opportunity | acl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Maui | case |
| 14 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 priest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 priest | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 priest | amod |
| 18 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kahekili | case |
| 20 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 priest | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 king | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Kahekili | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Maui | case |
| 25 | Maui | Maui | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 king | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ka | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ka not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | welcome | participle | Ka not said here | a opportunity | gladly property | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | |||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | Ka not said here | a opportunity not said here | Maui | as the high priest of Kahekili | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to maui=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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