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title: The seer no longer felt the compulsion of duty impelling him to seek… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The seer no longer felt the compulsion of duty impelling him to seek the king. Who acts: seer, duty. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 53

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The seer no longer felt the compulsion of duty impelling him to seek the king.

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**Who acts:** seer, duty · **What happens:** feel, impel, seek · **To what, where:** compulsion, seer, king

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seer, duty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:15:53
# text = The seer no longer felt the compulsion of duty impelling him to seek the king.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seer	seer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	compulsion	compulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	impelling	impel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the seer | the compulsion of duty |  |  |  | long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compulsion=Theme |
| 2 | **impel** | gerund | duty *not said here* | seer |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | duty *not said here* | the king |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |

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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.

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**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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