Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 64
Here were kept the two war drums sacred from ancient times.
What happens: keep · To what, where: two war drums
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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 kept | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | aux:pass |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drums | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 drums | nummod |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drums | compound |
| 7 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obj |
| 8 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 times | case |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 times | amod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sacred | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | the two war drums | here | sacred property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: drum=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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