Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 59
Finally, leaving his consulate in the hands of a friend, he went to England to present his own claims.
Who acts: advocate · What happens: leave, go, present, claim · To what, where: consulate, hands, England, own claims
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 (advocate), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 consulate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | consulate | consulate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leaving | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hands | det |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 leaving | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 friend | det |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hands | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaving | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 England | case |
| 16 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 present | mark |
| 18 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 claims | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 claims | amod |
| 21 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 present | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | advocate not said here | advocate's consulate | the hands of a friend | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent consulate=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | advocate | England | finally property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to england=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | present | to-infinitive | advocate not said here | advocate's own claims | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Theme | ||||
| 4 | claim | advocate | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=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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