Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 63

The king’s heart grew warm toward his faithful friends as he want down into the valley to tell them there was no pursuit, and they could seek rest and healing.

Who acts: heart, pursuit, people · What happens: grow, want down, tell, be, seek · To what, where: valley, people, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (heart, pursuit, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heart	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grew	nsubj
5	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grew	xcomp
7	toward	toward	ADP	_	10 friends	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friends	nmod:poss
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friends	amod
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grew	obl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 want	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 want	nsubj
13	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grew	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 want	advmod
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 valley	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 valley	det
17	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 want	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 want	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 pursuit	det
24	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seek	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seek	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 seek	aux
29	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 grew	conj
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seek	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 healing	cc
32	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rest	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the king's heart				toward king's faithful friends; warm property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want down	present	heart			the valley	down property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	heart not said here		people			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be	past	no pursuit			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	could	people	rest and healing				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 63

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 63