Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 179
Sometimes war gods—images of hideous and distorted features—were carried by priests and thrust into the faces of opponents.
Who acts: priests · What happens: carry, image · To what, where: war gods, faces, hideous features
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: who acts (priests), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 gods | advmod |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gods | compound |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 images | punct |
| 5 | images | image | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gods | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 features | case |
| 7 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 features | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 distorted | cc |
| 9 | distorted | distorted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hideous | conj |
| 10 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 images | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 gods | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 priests | case |
| 15 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thrust | cc |
| 17 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 priests | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 faces | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 faces | det |
| 20 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 opponents | case |
| 22 | opponents | opponent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 faces | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · passive | priests and thrust | war gods and images of hideous features | the faces of opponents | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | image | hideous features | nom image «cognition 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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