Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 113
Another series of prayers and offerings—and frequently a human victim—then the ornamented kapa was wrapped around the image as a war cloak.
What happens: ornament, wrap · To what, where: ornamented kapa, image, human victim
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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 series | det |
| 2 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 victim | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 prayers | case |
| 4 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 series | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 offerings | cc |
| 6 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prayers | conj |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 victim | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 victim | cc |
| 9 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 12 victim | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 victim | det |
| 11 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 victim | amod |
| 12 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrapped | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 wrapped | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kapa | det |
| 16 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kapa | amod |
| 17 | kapa | kapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 19 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 victim | conj |
| 20 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 image | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 image | det |
| 22 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrapped | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 cloak | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cloak | det |
| 25 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cloak | compound |
| 26 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wrapped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 victim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ornament | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | wrap | past · passive | the ornamented kapa | the image | then | as a war cloak | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme around image=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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