Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 22

When free from all chance of interference they encouraged each other to undertake an expedition, as Fornander says, “on their own account and inflict what damage they could.”

Who acts: men, Fornander, interference · What happens: encourage, undertake, say, inflict, chance, account · To what, where: each, chance, expedition, damage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, Fornander, interference), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	2 free	advmod
2	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 chance	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 chance	det
5	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 encouraged	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 interference	case
7	interference	interference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chance	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 encouraged	nsubj
9	encouraged	encourage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 free	parataxis
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 encouraged	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 undertake	mark
13	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 encouraged	ccomp
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 expedition	det
15	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 undertake	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 says	mark
18	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 encouraged	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 account	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 account	punct
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 account	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 account	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 account	amod
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	ccomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 inflict	cc
27	inflict	inflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	conj
28	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	29 damage	det
29	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 inflict	obj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 damage	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 free	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 free	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	encourage	past	men = man	each	all chance of interference		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic
2	undertake not said to happen	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	a expedition			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	present	Fornander			men's own account ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	inflict in a quote	present	Fornander not said here	what damage			tree rules
6	chance		interference				nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent
7	account in a quote		men = man				nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 22

The tree

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 22