Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 53
The lesson learned concerning the harbour dues was probably worth all that was lost, although the king lived less than two years afterwards to enjoy his new source of income.
Who acts: lesson, concerning, king · What happens: learn, concern, be, lose, live, enjoy · To what, where: harbour dues, new source · 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 (lesson, concerning, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lesson | det |
| 2 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 worth | csubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dues | det |
| 6 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dues | compound |
| 7 | dues | due | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 concerning | obj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 worth | cop |
| 9 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 10 worth | advmod |
| 10 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 learned | ccomp |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 worth | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux:pass |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 all | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 16 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 19 lived | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 learned | conj |
| 20 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 years | nummod |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lived | obl |
| 24 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 enjoy | mark |
| 26 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lived | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 source | nmod:poss |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 source | amod |
| 29 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 enjoy | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 income | case |
| 31 | income | income | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 source | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the lesson | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the harbour dues | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus due=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | concerning | probably, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · passive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | live | past | the king | year | afterwards, less property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | enjoy | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king's new source of income | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer source=Stimulus |
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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