Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 75
A few days later Admiral Thomas, commander of the English navy in the Pacific, arrived in Honolulu, and “in most courteous terms solicited a personal interview with the king.”
Who acts: Admiral Thomas · What happens: arrive, solicit · To what, where: Honolulu, personal interview, most courteous terms
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 (Admiral Thomas), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | Admiral | Admiral | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Thomas | compound |
| 6 | Thomas | Thomas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 commander | punct |
| 8 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Thomas | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 navy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 navy | det |
| 11 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 navy | amod |
| 12 | navy | navy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 commander | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Pacific | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Pacific | det |
| 15 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 navy | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Thomas | punct |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Honolulu | case |
| 19 | Honolulu | Honolulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 solicited | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 solicited | cc |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 solicited | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 terms | case |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 terms | amod |
| 25 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 terms | amod |
| 26 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 solicited | obl |
| 27 | solicited | solicit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arrived | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 interview | det |
| 29 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 interview | amod |
| 30 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 solicited | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 king | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 interview | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 solicited | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 solicited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Admiral Thomas | Honolulu | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | solicit in a quote | past | Admiral Thomas not said here | a personal interview | most courteous terms | with the king | 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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