Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 189
This sacrifice meant that the body was placed on an altar with prayers as a gift to the gods because the chief and his kingdom had been saved by the gods.
Who acts: sacrifice, gods · What happens: mean, place, save · To what, where: body, altar, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sacrifice, gods), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sacrifice | det |
| 2 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 placed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 placed | aux:pass |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 meant | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 altar | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 altar | det |
| 11 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 prayers | case |
| 13 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 altar | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 gift | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 gift | det |
| 16 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 gods | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gods | det |
| 19 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gift | nmod |
| 20 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 22 chief | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chief | det |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 saved | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 25 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 saved | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 saved | aux:pass |
| 28 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 placed | conj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 gods | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gods | det |
| 31 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 saved | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | this sacrifice | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the body | a altar with prayers | as a gift to the gods; because the chief | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on altar=Destination | |||
| 3 | save | past · perfect · passive | the gods | god's kingdom | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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