Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 65
Like Vancouver, Lord Paulet evidently had little doubt about England’s glad welcome of a new colonial possession.
Who acts: England · What happens: have, welcome · To what, where: little doubt, new colonial possession
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 (England), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 Vancouver | case |
| 2 | Vancouver | Vancouver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lord | punct |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Vancouver | conj |
| 5 | Paulet | Paulet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lord | flat |
| 6 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 doubt | amod |
| 9 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 welcome | case |
| 11 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 welcome | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 England | case |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 welcome | amod |
| 14 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doubt | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 possession | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 possession | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 possession | amod |
| 18 | colonial | colonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 possession | amod |
| 19 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 welcome | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | little doubt | like Vancouver and Lord; about England's glad welcome of a new colonial possession; evidently property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient | ||||
| 2 | welcome | England | a new colonial possession | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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