Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 41

They had thought that this little company would afford them an excellent sacrifice for their war gods, and had hoped to take them alive, even at the expense of the lives of a few men.

Who acts: little company · What happens: think, afford, hope, take · To what, where: warriors · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little company), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	aux
3	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 afford	mark
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 company	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 company	amod
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 afford	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 afford	aux
9	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 afford	obj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sacrifice	det
12	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sacrifice	amod
13	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 afford	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 gods	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 gods	nmod:poss
16	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gods	compound
17	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 afford	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hoped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hoped	cc
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hoped	aux
21	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thought	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hoped	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 take	obj
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 take	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 expense	punct
27	even	even	ADV	_	30 expense	advmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 expense	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 expense	det
30	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 lives	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lives	det
33	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 expense	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 men	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 men	det
36	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 men	amod
37	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lives	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · perfect · passive		warriors = warrior	the expense of the lives of a few men parataxis	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	afford	would	this little company	warriors = warrior	for warriors's war gods; a excellent sacrifice obj	tree rules
3	hope	past · perfect				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		warriors = warrior	alive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 41

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 41