Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 60
Therefore the queen decided that the time had not yet come to take such an eventful step.
Who acts: queen, time · What happens: decide, not come, take · To what, where: eventful step · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (queen, time), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 decided | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 come | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 come | advmod |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 come | xcomp |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 step | det:predet |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 step | det |
| 16 | eventful | eventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 step | amod |
| 17 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | the queen | therefore property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not come | past | the time | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the time not said here | such eventful step | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=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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