Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 202

They decided that he should be sacrificed to the gods, but his wounds were severe and he died before they could carry him to the temple.

Who acts: men, wounds, king · What happens: decide, sacrifice, be, die, carry, wound · To what, where: king, gods, temple · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, wounds, king), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 decided	nsubj
2	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 sacrificed	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sacrificed	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sacrificed	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 sacrificed	aux:pass
7	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 decided	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 gods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gods	det
10	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sacrificed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 severe	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 severe	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wounds	nmod:poss
14	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 severe	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 severe	cop
16	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 decided	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 died	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 died	nsubj
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 decided	conj
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 carry	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 carry	aux
23	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 died	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carry	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 temple	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 temple	det
27	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carry	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	decide	past	men = man					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sacrifice	should · passive		king	the gods			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to god=Recipient
3	is	past	king's wounds				severe property	tree rules
4	die	past	king					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	carry	could	men = man	king		the temple		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to temple=Destination
6	wound		king					nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 202

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 202