Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 40

She had done many things secretly which she did not care to have come to the ears of the priests, but she could scarcely believe that the common people did the same.

Who acts: Ka, common people · What happens: do, not care, come, believe · To what, where: many things, ears, same

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ka, common 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 done	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 done	aux
3	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 done	obj
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	11 care	advmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 care	obj
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 care	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 care	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 care	advmod
11	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 care	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ears	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ears	det
17	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 priests	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 priests	det
20	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ears	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 believe	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 believe	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 believe	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 believe	aux
25	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	26 believe	advmod
26	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 done	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 did	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 people	det
29	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 people	amod
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 did	nsubj
31	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 believe	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 same	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 did	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Ka	many things			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	not care	past · do-support	Ka			which obj; secretly property	tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive · perfect	Ka not said here		the ears of the priests		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location
4	believe	could	Ka			scarcely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	do	past	the common people	the same			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality

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, Last of the Tabu, sentence 40

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 40