Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 68

The native who sighs for the return of the days of the olden time would speedily try to get back out of the fire into what he considers a frying pan.

Who acts: native, days, land · What happens: sigh, try, get back, consider, return · To what, where: fire, frying pan

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The First Constitution. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native, days, land), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 native	det
2	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sighs	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sighs	nsubj
4	sighs	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 return	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 return	det
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sighs	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 days	det
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 return	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 try	obl
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 try	aux
16	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	17 try	advmod
17	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 days	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 try	xcomp
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 fire	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obl
25	into	into	SCONJ	_	28 considers	mark
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 considers	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 considers	nsubj
28	considers	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 get	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 pan	det
30	frying	frying	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 pan	compound
31	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 considers	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sighs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sigh	present	the native				for the return of the days; who nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for return=Recipient
2	try	would	the days not said here			time	speedily property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the days not said here		the fire			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out fire=Destination
4	consider	present	land	a frying pan			what obj	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme pan=Attribute
5	return		the days					nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 68

The tree

Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, The First Constitution, sentence 68