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Hawaiian Historical Legends, In the Days of Kahahana, 1782, sentence 50

The spirit of prophecy came upon the father as he saw the danger of his son and he gave utterance to one of the oracles for which the Hawaiian priesthood has been noted.

Who acts: spirit, son · What happens: come, see, give, note · To what, where: danger, utterance, one, Hawaiian priesthood

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 (spirit, son), 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

detnsubjcasenmodcasedetoblmarknsubjadvcldetobjcasenmod:possnmodccnsubjconjobjcaseoblcasedetnmodcaseobldetamodnsubj:passauxaux:passacl:relclpunctrootTheDETspiritNOUNofADPprophecyNOUNcameVERBuponADPtheDETfatherNOUNasSCONJhePRONsawVERBtheDETdangerNOUNofADPhisPRONsonNOUNandCCONJhePRONgaveVERButteranceNOUNtoADPoneNUMofADPtheDEToraclesNOUNforADPwhichPRONtheDETHawaiianADJpriesthoodNOUNhasAUXbeenAUXnotedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 spiritdet
2spiritspiritNOUNNumber=Sing5 camensubj
3ofofADP_4 prophecycase
4prophecyprophecyNOUNNumber=Sing2 spiritnmod
5camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6uponuponADP_8 fathercase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 fatherdet
8fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing5 cameobl
9asasSCONJ_11 sawmark
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 sawnsubj
11sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 cameadvcl
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 dangerdet
13dangerdangerNOUNNumber=Sing11 sawobj
14ofofADP_16 soncase
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 sonnmod:poss
16sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing13 dangernmod
17andandCCONJ_19 gavecc
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 gavensubj
19gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 sawconj
20utteranceutteranceNOUNNumber=Sing19 gaveobj
21totoADP_22 onecase
22oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 gaveobl
23ofofADP_25 oraclescase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 oraclesdet
25oraclesoracleNOUNNumber=Plur22 onenmod
26forforADP_27 whichcase
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel33 notedobl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 priesthooddet
29HawaiianhawaiianADJDegree=Pos30 priesthoodamod
30priesthoodpriesthoodNOUNNumber=Sing33 notednsubj:pass
31hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 notedaux
32beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part33 notedaux:pass
33notednoteVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 oraclesacl:relcl
34..PUNCT_5 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1comepastthe spirit of prophecyupon the fathervn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon father=Location
2seepastspiritthe danger of spirit's sonvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
3givepastsonutteranceone of the oraclesvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to one=Recipient
4notepresent · perfect · passivethe Hawaiian priesthoodfor the oraclesvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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