Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 96
In time of war a captured chief, unless claimed as a “blood brother” by a friend in the ranks of the enemy, or accepted by the new king, was sentenced to the heiau, or temple, as a human sacrifice.
What happens: capture, claim, accept, sentence · To what, where: captured chief, enemy
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sentenced | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 war | case |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 6 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chief | amod |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sentenced | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 claimed | punct |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 10 claimed | mark |
| 10 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chief | acl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 brother | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brother | det |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | compound |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 claimed | obl |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 friend | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 claimed | obl:agent |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 ranks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ranks | det |
| 22 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 friend | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 enemy | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enemy | det |
| 25 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ranks | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 accepted | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 accepted | cc |
| 28 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 enemy | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 king | amod |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 accepted | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chief | punct |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 sentenced | aux:pass |
| 35 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 heiau | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 heiau | det |
| 38 | heiau | heiau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sentenced | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 temple | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 temple | cc |
| 41 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heiau | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sacrifice | punct |
| 43 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 sacrifice | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 sacrifice | det |
| 45 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sacrifice | amod |
| 46 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sentenced | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 sentenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | capture | participle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | claim speech: other a condition, not said to happen | participle | a captured chief not said here | as a blood brother; a friend in the ranks of the enemy obl:agent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accept | participle | the enemy not said here | by the new king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sentence | past · passive | a captured chief | time | to the heiau or temple; as a human sacrifice | tree rules |
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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