Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 5
Oahu was also tempting Kahekili, and he had already taken steps to weaken the forces of that island.
Who acts: Oahu, Kahekili · What happens: tempt, take, weaken · To what, where: Kahekili, steps, forces
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 (Oahu, Kahekili), 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 | Oahu | Oahu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tempting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tempting | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 tempting | advmod |
| 4 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | Kahekili | Kahekili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tempting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 10 | already | already | ADV | _ | 11 taken | advmod |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 tempting | parataxis |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 weaken | mark |
| 14 | weaken | weaken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 taken | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forces | det |
| 16 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 weaken | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 island | det |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forces | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tempting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tempt | past · progressive | Oahu | Kahekili | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kahekili=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | Kahekili | steps | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weaken | to-infinitive | Kahekili not said here | the forces of that island | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent force=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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