Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 13
The uninvited guest was unwelcome because no preparation had been made for the reception.
Who acts: uninvited guest · What happens: be, make · To what, where: preparation
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uninvited guest), 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 | 3 guest | det |
| 2 | uninvited | uninvited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 guest | amod |
| 3 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unwelcome | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unwelcome | cop |
| 5 | unwelcome | unwelcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 preparation | det |
| 8 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 unwelcome | advcl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 reception | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 reception | det |
| 14 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unwelcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the uninvited guest | unwelcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | no preparation | for the reception | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for reception=Asset |
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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