Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 110
New kapa, or paper-cloth garments, were made and consecrated to the god with prayer and sacrifices.
What happens: make, consecrate · To what, where: New kapa
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 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kapa | amod |
| 2 | kapa | kapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 garments | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 garments | cc |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloth | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 paper | punct |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garments | compound |
| 8 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kapa | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 kapa | punct |
| 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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 consecrated | cc |
| 13 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 god | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 god | det |
| 16 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 consecrated | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 prayer | case |
| 18 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 god | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sacrifices | cc |
| 20 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prayer | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | New kapa or cloth garments | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | consecrate | participle | to the god with prayer and sacrifices | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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