Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 90
Sometimes captives were given the choice between allegiance or death as a human sacrifice before the gods.
What happens: give · To what, where: captives
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: 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 | 4 given | advmod |
| 2 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 choice | det |
| 6 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 allegiance | case |
| 8 | allegiance | allegiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choice | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 death | cc |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choice | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 sacrifice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sacrifice | det |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sacrifice | amod |
| 14 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 gods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gods | det |
| 17 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 given | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | captives | before the gods | as a human sacrifice; the choice or death obj; sometimes property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient choice=Theme |
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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