Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 192
Some of the bones were kept by the priests and worshipped.
Who acts: priests · What happens: keep, worshipp · To what, where: Some
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 (priests), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bones | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bones | det |
| 4 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux:pass |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 priests | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 priests | det |
| 9 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 worshipped | cc |
| 11 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | the priests | Some of the bones | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | worshipp | past | the priests not said here | 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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