Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 134
Nor was I permitted to feel the least fear.
What happens: permit, feel · To what, where: Nor, least fear
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 permitted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 permitted | aux:pass |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 permitted | nsubj |
| 4 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 feel | mark |
| 6 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permitted | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fear | det |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 fear | amod |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feel | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | past · passive | Nor | I nsubj | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel not said to happen | to-infinitive | the least fear | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme |
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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