Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 64
They made offerings to their gods, Hia and Lauhuki, of bark and leaves, with the prayer that the bark might be easily manufactured into the finest cloth.
Who acts: makers, prayer · What happens: make, leave, manufacture · To what, where: offerings, prayer, bark, finest cloth
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 (makers, prayer), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gods | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gods | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hia | punct |
| 8 | Hia | Hia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gods | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Lauhuki | cc |
| 10 | Lauhuki | Lauhuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hia | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bark | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bark | case |
| 13 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leaves | cc |
| 15 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prayer | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 prayer | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prayer | det |
| 19 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaves | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 manufactured | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bark | det |
| 22 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 manufactured | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 manufactured | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 manufactured | aux:pass |
| 25 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 26 manufactured | advmod |
| 26 | manufactured | manufacture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 prayer | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 cloth | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cloth | det |
| 29 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 cloth | amod |
| 30 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 manufactured | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | makers = maker | offerings | to makers's gods; of bark | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offering=Product | |||
| 2 | leave | present | makers = maker not said here | the prayer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | manufacture | might · passive | the prayer not said here | the bark | the finest cloth | easily property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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