Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 122
There they gave him a place upon the platform with the images of the gods—the place where sacrifices were laid.
Who acts: man · What happens: give, lay, image · To what, where: place, priest, sacrifices, gods
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Captain Cook. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 platform | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 platform | det |
| 9 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 images | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 images | det |
| 12 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 platform | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gods | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gods | det |
| 15 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 images | nmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 laid | advmod |
| 20 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 laid | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laid | aux:pass |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | man | a place | priest | there | upon the platform with the images of the gods | tree rules | |
| 2 | lay | past · passive | sacrifices | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | image | the gods | nom image «cognition 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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