Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 41

After a time Moi-keha found that life with his brother was not so pleasant as might be desired, therefore he again prepared for a new voyage, this time returning to his native land.

Who acts: Moi, life, time · What happens: find, not be, desire, prepare, return

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, life, time), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
4	Moi	Moi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 keha	punct
6	keha	keha	X	Foreign=Yes	4 Moi	dep
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 pleasant	mark
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pleasant	nsubj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 brother	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 life	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pleasant	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 pleasant	advmod
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 pleasant	advmod
16	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	ccomp
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 desired	mark
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 desired	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 desired	aux:pass
20	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 pleasant	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prepared	punct
22	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	25 prepared	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 prepared	nsubj
24	again	again	ADV	_	25 prepared	advmod
25	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	parataxis
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 voyage	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 voyage	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 voyage	amod
29	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prepared	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 voyage	conj
33	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 time	acl
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 land	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 land	nmod:poss
36	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 land	amod
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 returning	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Moi	time		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	life with Moi's brother		pleasant property	tree rules
3	desire	might · passive	life with Moi's brother not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»
4	prepare	past	Moi	again	for a new voyage and this time; therefore property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for voyage=Beneficiary
5	return	gerund	this time not said here		to Moi's native land result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 41

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 41