Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 30
They were not willing to have the island disposed of in that way.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: not be, have, dispose · To what, where: island
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs), 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 | 4 willing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 willing | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 willing | advmod |
| 4 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 willing | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 island | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disposed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 willing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | chiefs = chief | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | the island | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dispose | participle | the island not said here | of that way | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=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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