Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 65
But the king, although under the influence of liquor, was not quite ready to take this step.
Who acts: king · What happens: not be, take · To what, where: step
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 (king), 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 | _ | 15 ready | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 influence | punct |
| 5 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 8 influence | case |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 influence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 influence | det |
| 8 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 liquor | case |
| 10 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 influence | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ready | advmod |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 ready | advmod |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 step | det |
| 19 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the king and the influence of liquor | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the king and the influence of liquor not said here | this 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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