Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 77

The chiefs had deeply rooted principles of loyalty and honour toward each other, and yet the reign of the gods was supreme even while accompanied by a host of burdens such as continual human sacrifices and tabus extremely hard to bear.

Who acts: reign · What happens: root, be, accompany, bear · To what, where: chiefs

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 (reign), 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 chiefs	det
2	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rooted	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rooted	aux
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	5 rooted	advmod
5	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	principles	principle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rooted	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 loyalty	case
8	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 principles	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 honour	cc
10	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loyalty	conj
11	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 honour	nmod
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 supreme	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 supreme	cc
16	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 supreme	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 reign	det
18	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 supreme	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 gods	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 gods	det
21	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 reign	nmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 supreme	cop
23	supreme	supreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rooted	conj
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 while	advmod
25	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 supreme	obl
26	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 while	acl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 host	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 host	det
29	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 accompanied	obl:agent
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 burdens	case
31	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 host	nmod
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	36 sacrifices	case
33	as	as	ADP	_	32 such	fixed
34	continual	continual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sacrifices	amod
35	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sacrifices	amod
36	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 burdens	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tabus	cc
38	tabus	tabus	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sacrifices	conj
39	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	40 hard	advmod
40	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sacrifices	advcl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 bear	mark
42	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hard	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rooted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	root	past · perfect · passive		the chiefs		principles of loyalty and honour toward each obj; deeply property	tree rules
2	is	past	the reign of the gods		yet	supreme property	tree rules
3	accompany	participle				a host of burdens such continual human sacrifices and tabus obl:agent	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bear	to-infinitive					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 77

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 77