Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 24
It was a burial custom to place the palaoa in the burial cave in which the bones of any dead chief might be secreted.
Who acts: necklace · What happens: be, secrete · To what, where: burial custom, bones, burial cave
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (necklace), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 custom | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 custom | det |
| 4 | burial | burial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 custom | amod |
| 5 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 place | mark |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 custom | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palaoa | det |
| 9 | palaoa | palaoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 place | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 12 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cave | compound |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palaoa | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 secreted | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bones | det |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 secreted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 chief | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 chief | det |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chief | amod |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bones | nmod |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 secreted | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 secreted | aux:pass |
| 24 | secreted | secrete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 cave | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | necklace | a burial custom and place | place conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | secrete | might · passive | the bones of any dead chief | the burial cave | 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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