Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Hawaiian Flag, sentence 91
Undeterred by this English experience, a Frenchman thought it worth his while to secure the little kingdom.
Who acts: Frenchman · What happens: undeterr, think, worth, secure · To what, where: little kingdom · 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 (Frenchman), 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 | Undeterred | undeterr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 experience | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 experience | det |
| 4 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 experience | amod |
| 5 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Undeterred | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Frenchman | det |
| 8 | Frenchman | Frenchman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Undeterred | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 worth | nsubj |
| 11 | worth | worth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 while | nmod:poss |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worth | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 secure | mark |
| 15 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 worth | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kingdom | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kingdom | amod |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 secure | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Undeterred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undeterr | participle | by this English experience | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a Frenchman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | worth | past | Frenchman | while | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | secure | to-infinitive | Frenchman not said here | the little kingdom | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition kingdom=Theme |
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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