Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 43

Fornander says that “every independent chief, and every temple where human sacrifices were offered, had their own drum and drummer from Laa-mai-Kahiki’s time to the introduction of Christianity.”

Who acts: Fornander, independent chief · What happens: say, offer, have, introduce · To what, where: human sacrifices, own drum, Christianity · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fornander, independent chief), 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	Fornander	Fornander	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 chief	det
6	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chief	amod
7	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 temple	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 temple	cc
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 temple	det
11	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chief	conj
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 offered	advmod
13	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sacrifices	amod
14	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 offered	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 offered	aux:pass
16	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 temple	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chief	punct
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 drum	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 drum	amod
21	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drummer	cc
23	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 drum	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 Laa	case
25	Laa	Laa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 time	obl
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Laa	punct
27	mai	mai	X	Foreign=Yes	31 time	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 mai	punct
29	Kahiki	Kahiki	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 time	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Kahiki	case
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 introduction	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 introduction	det
34	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Christianity	case
36	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 introduction	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Fornander			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	offer in a quote	past · passive		human sacrifices		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
3	have in a quote	past	every independent chief and every temple	sacrifices's own drum and drummer	time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Patient
4	introduce in a quote			Christianity		nom introduction «act transitive»: of=patient

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, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 43

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 43