Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 217
He had managed through all the campaign, to surround himself with mysteries, and had gained unbounded influence through arousing superstitious fears as well as through warlike deeds.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: manage, surround, gain, arouse · To what, where: campaign, Paao, unbounded influence, superstitious fears
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paao), 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 | 3 managed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 managed | aux |
| 3 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 campaign | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 campaign | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 campaign | det |
| 7 | campaign | campaign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 managed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 surround | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 surround | mark |
| 10 | surround | surround | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 managed | parataxis |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 surround | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 mysteries | case |
| 13 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 surround | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gained | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gained | cc |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gained | aux |
| 17 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 managed | parataxis |
| 18 | unbounded | unbounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 influence | amod |
| 19 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gained | obj |
| 20 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 21 arousing | mark |
| 21 | arousing | arouse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gained | advcl |
| 22 | superstitious | superstitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fears | amod |
| 23 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arousing | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 deeds | cc |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 deeds | case |
| 28 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deeds | amod |
| 29 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 arousing | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past · perfect | Paao | all campaign | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | surround | to-infinitive | Paao | with mysteries | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with mystery=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gain | past · perfect | unbounded influence | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme | |||||
| 4 | arouse | gerund | superstitious fears | warlike deeds conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer |
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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