Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 33
Therefore he announced that he was intending to journey around the island for the avowed purpose of consecrating certain temples and offering sacrifices in others.
Who acts: king, avowed purpose · What happens: announce, intend, avow, consecrate · To what, where: island, certain temples, others · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, avowed purpose), 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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 announced | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 announced | nsubj |
| 3 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 intending | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 intending | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 intending | aux |
| 7 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 announced | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 journey | mark |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intending | advcl |
| 10 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intending | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 purpose | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 purpose | det |
| 15 | avowed | avow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 purpose | amod |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 intending | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 consecrating | mark |
| 18 | consecrating | consecrate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 purpose | acl |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 temples | amod |
| 20 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 consecrating | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sacrifices | cc |
| 22 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sacrifices | compound |
| 23 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 temples | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 others | case |
| 25 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 temples | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 announced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | announce speech: other | past | king | therefore property | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | intend | past · progressive | king | the island | for the avowed purpose; journey advcl | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | avow | participle | vn declare-29.4 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | consecrate | gerund | the avowed purpose not said here | certain temples and offering sacrifices | others | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=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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