Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 107
While this army was being recruited, great preparations were made for the purchase of the favour of the gods.
What happens: recruit, make, purchase, favour · To what, where: army, recruited great preparations, favour, gods
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: 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 recruited | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 army | det |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 recruited | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 recruited | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 recruited | aux:pass |
| 6 | recruited | recruit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 preparations | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 recruited | punct |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 preparations | amod |
| 9 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 purchase | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 purchase | det |
| 14 | purchase | purchase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 favour | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 favour | det |
| 17 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 purchase | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 favour | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recruit | past · passive | this army | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | recruited great preparations | for the purchase of the favour of the gods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for purchase=Asset | ||||
| 3 | purchase | the favour of the gods | nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | favour | the gods | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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