Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 131
Many human sacrifices were laid upon the altars.
What happens: lay · To what, where: Many human sacrifices, altars
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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sacrifices | amod |
| 2 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sacrifices | amod |
| 3 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | aux:pass |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 altars | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 altars | det |
| 8 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laid | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | Many human sacrifices | the altars | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon altar=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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