Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 56
He evidently cared but little for the preservation of this, one of the most ancient places on Hawaii.
Who acts: Waipio · What happens: care, preserve · To what, where: one, this
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 (Waipio), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cared | nsubj |
| 2 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 3 cared | advmod |
| 3 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 little | cc |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cared | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 preservation | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 preservation | det |
| 8 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cared | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 preservation | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 cared | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 places | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 places | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 ancient | advmod |
| 16 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 places | amod |
| 17 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Hawaii | case |
| 19 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 places | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | past | Waipio | one of the ancient places on Hawaii | for the preservation of this; evidently property | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for preservation=Theme | |||
| 2 | preserve | this | nom preservation «act 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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