Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 18
Moi-keha, however, seems to have taken this young man under his own especial protection as his foster son.
Who acts: Moi · What happens: seem, take, protect · To what, where: young man, own especial protection
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moi), 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 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 keha | punct |
| 3 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Moi | dep |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moi | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 seems | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 taken | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 taken | aux |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 protection | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 protection | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 protection | amod |
| 17 | especial | especial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 protection | amod |
| 18 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 son | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 son | compound |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | Moi | however property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive · perfect | Moi not said here | this young man | Moi's own especial protection | as Moi's foster son | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme as son=Attribute | ||
| 3 | protect | Moi | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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