Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 123
The priest stepped back after putting on Captain Cook the oloa (the small white tapa thrown over the god while prayer was being recited) and the red cloak haena, as was the custom with the gods.
Who acts: priest · What happens: step back, put, throw, recite, be · To what, where: oloa, Captain Cook, small white tapa, prayer
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 (priest), 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 | 2 priest | det |
| 2 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | nsubj |
| 3 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 stepped | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 putting | mark |
| 6 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stepped | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Cook | case |
| 8 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Cook | compound |
| 9 | Cook | Cook | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 oloa | det |
| 11 | oloa | oloa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 putting | obj |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 tapa | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tapa | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tapa | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tapa | amod |
| 16 | tapa | tapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 oloa | appos |
| 17 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tapa | acl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 god | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 god | det |
| 20 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 recited | mark |
| 22 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recited | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 recited | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 recited | aux:pass |
| 25 | recited | recite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 thrown | advcl |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 tapa | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 haena | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 haena | det |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 haena | amod |
| 30 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 haena | compound |
| 31 | haena | haena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 oloa | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 custom | punct |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 custom | case |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 custom | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 custom | det |
| 36 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepped | parataxis |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 gods | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 gods | det |
| 39 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 custom | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step back | past | the priest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | put | gerund | the priest not said here | the oloa and the red cloak haena | Captain Cook | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent oloa=Theme on cook=Destination | |||
| 3 | throw | participle | the small white tapa not said here | over the god | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over god=Destination | ||||
| 4 | recite | past · passive | prayer | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | as the custom; with the gods | tree rules |
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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