Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 66
Moreover, their anger would be against those who had lightly given away the drum-voices.
Who acts: drums · What happens: be, give away, anger · To what, where: drum voices
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 (drums), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 5 would | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 anger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 would | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 those | cop |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 those | case |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 would | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 given | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 given | aux |
| 11 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 12 given | advmod |
| 12 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 those | acl:relcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 given | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voices | det |
| 15 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voices | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 drum | punct |
| 17 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 given | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 would | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | against those | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give away | past · perfect · passive | the drum voices | who nsubj:pass; away, lightly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | anger | drums = drum | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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