Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 112
It was beautifully coloured and brought to the idol.
What happens: colour, bring · To what, where: cloth, idol
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 coloured | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 coloured | aux:pass |
| 3 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 4 coloured | advmod |
| 4 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brought | cc |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 coloured | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 idol | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idol | det |
| 9 | idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 coloured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | past · passive | cloth | beautifully property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | the idol | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to idol=Destination |
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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