Hawaiian Historical Legends, Captain Cook, sentence 53
The people thought that by the prayer of the priest all troubles of tabu had been lifted, so they asked the priest if there would be any trouble if they went on this place of the god.
Who acts: people, prayer, troubles, priest · What happens: think, lift, ask, be, go, pray · To what, where: troubles, priest, trouble, place, tabu · 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 (people, prayer, troubles, 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 lifted | mark |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 prayer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prayer | det |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lifted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 priest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 priest | det |
| 10 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prayer | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 troubles | det |
| 12 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tabu | case |
| 14 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 troubles | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lifted | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 lifted | aux:pass |
| 17 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 asked | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 priest | det |
| 23 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 be | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 be | expl |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 be | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 trouble | cop |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 trouble | det |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | ccomp |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 went | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 asked | advcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 place | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 place | det |
| 35 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 god | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 god | det |
| 38 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 place | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the people | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lift | past · perfect · passive | the prayer of the priest | all troubles of tabu | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | troubles = trouble | the priest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | any trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen | past | people | this place of the god | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on place=Location | ||||
| 6 | pray | the priest | nom prayer «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | trouble | tabu | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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