Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 104
They were sacred in the eyes of the people, who prostrated themselves with faces in the dust when the high chief came near them.
Who acts: records, high chief · What happens: be, prostrate, come · To what, where: eyes, records, dust
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (records, high chief), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sacred | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacred | cop |
| 3 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sacred | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eyes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 prostrated | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 prostrated | nsubj |
| 12 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sacred | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 prostrated | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 faces | case |
| 15 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prostrated | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dust | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dust | det |
| 18 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prostrated | obl |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chief | det |
| 21 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chief | amod |
| 22 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 prostrated | advcl |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sacred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | records = record | the eyes of the people | sacred property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prostrate | past | records = record | the dust | with faces; who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | the high chief | near records = record | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location |
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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