Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 8

But, like a true man, Ka-meha-meha made this incident the occasion of a decision to neither commit nor permit any more highway robbery in his kingdom.

Who acts: true man, decision · What happens: make, commit, permit, occasion · To what, where: incident, more highway robbery, kingdom, decision

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 (true man, decision), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 made	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Ka	punct
8	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	appos
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 meha	punct
10	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	8 Ka	dep
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 meha	punct
12	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	8 Ka	dep
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 incident	det
15	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 occasion	det
17	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 decision	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 decision	det
20	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 occasion	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 commit	case
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 commit	cc:preconj
23	commit	commit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 decision	acl:relcl
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 permit	cc
25	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 commit	conj
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 robbery	amod
28	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 robbery	compound
29	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 permit	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 kingdom	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 kingdom	nmod:poss
32	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 robbery	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	participle	a true man	this incident		the occasion of a decision obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset incident=Beneficiary occasion=Product
2	commit	infinitive	a decision not said here				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	permit	infinitive	a decision not said here	more highway robbery	man's kingdom		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent robbery=Theme in kingdom=Location
4	occasion			a decision			nom occasion «event 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 8

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 8