Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 190
When the ceremonies of the sacrifice were over, they cleaned off the flesh from the bones of Lono and preserved them.
Who acts: ceremonies, sacrifices · What happens: be, clean off, preserve · To what, where: flesh, bones, sacrifices
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 (ceremonies, sacrifices), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ceremonies | det |
| 3 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 over | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sacrifice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sacrifice | det |
| 6 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceremonies | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 over | cop |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 cleaned | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 over | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cleaned | nsubj |
| 11 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 cleaned | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flesh | det |
| 14 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cleaned | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bones | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bones | det |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cleaned | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Lono | case |
| 19 | Lono | Lono | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bones | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 preserved | cc |
| 21 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 cleaned | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 preserved | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cleaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ceremonies of the sacrifice | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | clean off | past | sacrifices = sacrifice | the flesh | the bones of Lono | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from bone=Source | |||
| 3 | preserve | past | sacrifices = sacrifice not said here | sacrifices = sacrifice | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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