Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 91
If they accepted the new service, they were at once treated like friends and property and marriage secured for them.
Who acts: captives · What happens: accept, treat, secure · To what, where: new service, captives, marriage
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 (captives), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 accepted | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 treated | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 service | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 service | amod |
| 6 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accepted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 accepted | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 treated | aux:pass |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 treated | obl |
| 12 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 treated | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 property | cc |
| 16 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friends | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 marriage | cc |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friends | conj |
| 19 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 marriage | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 secured | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept a condition, not said to happen | past | captives = captive | the new service | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | past · passive | captives = captive | like friends and property and marriage | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | secure | participle | marriage not said here | for captives = captive | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition for they=Beneficiary |
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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