Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 48
There he was given no opportunity to offer sacrifice, but was attacked by the servants of the king.
Who acts: servants · What happens: give, offer, attack · To what, where: plea, sacrifice
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 (servants), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 given | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 opportunity | det |
| 6 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 offer | mark |
| 8 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 opportunity | acl |
| 9 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 attacked | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 attacked | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 attacked | aux:pass |
| 13 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 given | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 servants | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 servants | det |
| 16 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attacked | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 servants | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | plea | there | no opportunity obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient opportunity=Theme | |||
| 2 | offer | to-infinitive | sacrifice | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attack | past · passive | the servants of the king | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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