Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 31

Fornander says: “It was a chivalrous undertaking, a forlorn hope, wholly unauthorised but fully within the spirit of that time for personal valour, audacity, and total disregard of consequences.

Who acts: Fornander, part · What happens: say, be, disregard · To what, where: chivalrous undertaking, consequences · 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 (Fornander, part), 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	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 undertaking	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 undertaking	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 undertaking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 undertaking	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 undertaking	det
8	chivalrous	chivalrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 undertaking	amod
9	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hope	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hope	det
12	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hope	amod
13	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undertaking	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unauthorised	punct
15	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	16 unauthorised	advmod
16	unauthorised	unauthorised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hope	conj
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 fully	cc
18	fully	fully	ADV	_	16 unauthorised	conj
19	within	within	ADP	_	21 spirit	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spirit	det
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unauthorised	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spirit	nmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 valour	case
26	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 valour	amod
27	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 time	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 audacity	punct
29	audacity	audacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 valour	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 disregard	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 disregard	cc
32	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 disregard	amod
33	disregard	disregard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 undertaking	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 consequences	case
35	consequences	consequence	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 disregard	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Fornander			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	part	a chivalrous undertaking and a forlorn hope and total disregard of consequences	a forlorn hope conj; total disregard of consequences conj	tree rules
3	disregard in a quote			consequences		nom disregard «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 31