Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 48
Offerings were sent to the temples and the priests were consulted.
What happens: send, consult · To what, where: Offerings, temples, priests
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: 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 | Offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 temples | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temples | det |
| 6 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 consulted | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 priests | det |
| 9 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 consulted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 consulted | aux:pass |
| 11 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | Offerings | the temples | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to temple=Destination | ||||
| 2 | consult | past · passive | the priests | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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