Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 61
He seized upon every pretext for advancing his intention of seizing the islands in the name of the English crown.
Who acts: Captain, intention · What happens: seize, advance, intend, name · To what, where: intention, islands, name, English crown
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 (Captain, intention), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 pretext | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pretext | det |
| 5 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seized | obl |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 advancing | mark |
| 7 | advancing | advance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seized | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 intention | nmod:poss |
| 9 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advancing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 seizing | mark |
| 11 | seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 intention | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 islands | det |
| 13 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seizing | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 name | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 name | det |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seizing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 crown | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crown | det |
| 19 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crown | amod |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 name | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Captain | upon every pretext | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | advance | gerund | Captain not said here | Captain's intention | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer intention=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | Captain's intention not said here | the islands | the name of the English crown | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Theme | |||
| 4 | intend | Captain | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | the English crown | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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