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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 67

Every taro field was carefully cultivated, and prayers offered and sacrifices made to the hideous images of gods placed at some corner of each field to watch over the growing plants.

Who acts: prayers · What happens: cultivate, offer, make, place, watch, grow · To what, where: taro field, sacrifices, gods, corner, growing plants

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 (prayers), 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

detcompoundnsubj:passaux:passadvmodpunctccnsubjconjccobjaclcasedetamodoblcasenmodaclcasedetoblcasedetnmodmarkadvclcasedetamodoblpunctrootEveryDETtaroNOUNfieldNOUNwasAUXcarefullyADVcultivatedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJprayersNOUNofferedVERBandCCONJsacrificesNOUNmadeVERBtoADPtheDEThideousADJimagesNOUNofADPgodsNOUNplacedVERBatADPsomeDETcornerNOUNofADPeachDETfieldNOUNtoPARTwatchVERBoverADPtheDETgrowingVERBplantsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1EveryeveryDETPronType=Tot3 fielddet
2tarotaroNOUNNumber=Sing3 fieldcompound
3fieldfieldNOUNNumber=Sing6 cultivatednsubj:pass
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 cultivatedaux:pass
5carefullycarefullyADV_6 cultivatedadvmod
6cultivatedcultivateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
7,,PUNCT_10 offeredpunct
8andandCCONJ_10 offeredcc
9prayersprayerNOUNNumber=Plur10 offerednsubj
10offeredofferVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 cultivatedconj
11andandCCONJ_12 sacrificescc
12sacrificessacrificeNOUNNumber=Plur10 offeredobj
13mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 sacrificesacl
14totoADP_17 imagescase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 imagesdet
16hideoushideousADJDegree=Pos17 imagesamod
17imagesimageNOUNNumber=Plur13 madeobl
18ofofADP_19 godscase
19godsgodNOUNNumber=Plur17 imagesnmod
20placedplaceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 godsacl
21atatADP_23 cornercase
22somesomeDETPronType=Ind23 cornerdet
23cornercornerNOUNNumber=Sing20 placedobl
24ofofADP_26 fieldcase
25eacheachDETPronType=Tot26 fielddet
26fieldfieldNOUNNumber=Sing23 cornernmod
27totoPART_28 watchmark
28watchwatchVERBVerbForm=Inf20 placedadvcl
29overoverADP_32 plantscase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 plantsdet
31growinggrowVERBVerbForm=Ger32 plantsamod
32plantsplantNOUNNumber=Plur28 watchobl
33..PUNCT_6 cultivatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1cultivatepast · passiveevery taro fieldcarefully propertyvn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2offerpastprayerssacrificesvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme
3makeparticiplesacrifices not said hereto the hideous images of godsvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4placeparticiplegods not said heresome corner of each fieldvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at corner=Destination
5watchto-infinitivethe growing plantsvn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over plant=Location
6growgerundvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7imagegodsnom 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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