Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Hawaiian Printing, sentence 32
Liho-liho felt a little like the foreigners who did not want the natives instructed.
Who acts: Liho liho, foreigners, natives · What happens: feel, not want, instruct · To what, where: little, natives
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Hawaiian Printing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Liho liho, foreigners, natives), 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 | Liho | Liho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 liho | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Liho | punct |
| 3 | liho | liho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 foreigners | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 foreigners | det |
| 9 | foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 little | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 want | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 want | advmod |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 foreigners | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 natives | det |
| 15 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 want | obj |
| 16 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 want | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Liho liho | a little like the foreigners | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want | past · do-support | the foreigners | the natives | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other not said to happen | participle | the natives not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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