Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 27
His strength was gone, and hands were outstretched to seize him and carry him as a living sacrifice to the nearest heiau.
Who acts: strength · What happens: be, outstretch, seize, carry · To what, where: hands, Heavy, nearest heiau
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 (strength), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 strength | nmod:poss |
| 2 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 outstretched | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 outstretched | cc |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 outstretched | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 outstretched | aux:pass |
| 9 | outstretched | outstretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seize | mark |
| 11 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 outstretched | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seize | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carry | cc |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seize | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 sacrifice | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sacrifice | det |
| 18 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sacrifice | amod |
| 19 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 heiau | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heiau | det |
| 22 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 heiau | amod |
| 23 | heiau | heiau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Heavy's strength | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | outstretch | past · passive | hands | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize | to-infinitive | Heavy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | infinitive | Heavy | the nearest heiau | as a living sacrifice | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to heiau=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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