Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 80
The young princess had now decided that Moi-keha was the chief she desired, but she could not urge him to go, and still he lingered.
Who acts: Moi, princess · What happens: decide, be, desire, not urge, go, linger · To what, where: young princess, chief, Moi
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, princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | aux |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 decided | advmod |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 chief | mark |
| 8 | Moi | Moi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chief | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Moi | punct |
| 10 | keha | keha | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 Moi | dep |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chief | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decided | xcomp |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 desired | nsubj |
| 15 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chief | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 urge | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 urge | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 urge | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 urge | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 urge | advmod |
| 21 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decided | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 urge | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 urge | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lingered | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lingered | cc |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 29 lingered | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lingered | nsubj |
| 29 | lingered | linger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past · perfect · passive | the young princess | now | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | past | Moi | the chief | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | desire | past | princess | the chief not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not urge | could | princess | Moi | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | linger | past | Moi | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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