Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 40
A chief and a priest tied the ends of their long malo-like sashes and held them up in their left hands.
Who acts: chief · What happens: tie, hold up · To what, where: ends, left hands
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 (chief), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 priest | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chief | conj |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chief | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ends | det |
| 8 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tied | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sashes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sashes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sashes | amod |
| 12 | malo | malo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 malo | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sashes | amod |
| 15 | sashes | sash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ends | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 held | compound:prt |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hands | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 22 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hands | amod |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | a chief and a priest not said here | the ends of chief's long like sashes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold up | past | a chief and a priest | ends = end | chief's left hands | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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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