Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 49
The most sacred tests were made of the most important auguries known by the priesthood.
What happens: make, know · To what, where: sacred tests, important auguries
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tests | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 sacred | advmod |
| 3 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tests | amod |
| 4 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 auguries | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 auguries | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 important | advmod |
| 10 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 auguries | amod |
| 11 | auguries | augury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 auguries | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 priesthood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 priesthood | det |
| 15 | priesthood | priesthood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | the sacred tests | of the important auguries | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | the important auguries not said here | by the priesthood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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