Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 133
The Provisional Government was strongly entrenched, and Mr. Blount found that the only thing he could do was to withdraw United States protection.
Who acts: Blount, only thing · What happens: entrench, find, do, be · To what, where: Provisional Government, only thing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Flag. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blount, only thing), 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 | 3 Government | det |
| 2 | Provisional | provisional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Government | amod |
| 3 | Government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entrenched | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entrenched | aux:pass |
| 5 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 6 entrenched | advmod |
| 6 | entrenched | entrench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Blount | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Blount | Blount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entrenched | parataxis |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 withdraw | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thing | det |
| 14 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thing | amod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 withdraw | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 withdraw | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 withdraw | mark |
| 21 | withdraw | withdraw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 found | ccomp |
| 22 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 States | amod |
| 23 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 protection | compound |
| 24 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 withdraw | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entrenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrench | past · passive | the Provisional Government | strongly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Blount Mr. | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | could | Blount | the only thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the only thing | States protection obj; withdraw property | tree rules |
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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