Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 58
They had no hope of being able to rescue him but turned to see if anything could be done.
Who acts: friends, hope · What happens: have, be, rescue, turn, see, do · To what, where: hope, captive, anything
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 (friends, hope), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 hope | det |
| 4 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 able | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 able | cop |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hope | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 rescue | mark |
| 9 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rescue | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 turned | xcomp |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 done | mark |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | friends = friend | no hope | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | no hope not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rescue | to-infinitive | no hope not said here | captive | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | friends = friend not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | do a condition, not said to happen | could · passive | anything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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