Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 39
He was thoroughly skilled in all the deep mysteries of priestly lore.
What happens: skill · To what, where: Wai, deep mysteries
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 skilled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 skilled | aux:pass |
| 3 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 4 skilled | advmod |
| 4 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mysteries | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 mysteries | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mysteries | det |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mysteries | amod |
| 9 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 skilled | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lore | case |
| 11 | priestly | priestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lore | amod |
| 12 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mysteries | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 skilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skill | past · passive | Wai | all deep mysteries of priestly lore | thoroughly property | 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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