Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 56
He started swiftly toward the temple to have his captive sacrificed “as the first victim of the war.”
Who acts: opposition, captive · What happens: start, have, sacrifice
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 (opposition, captive), 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 | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 2 started | advmod |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 started | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 started | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 captive | nmod:poss |
| 10 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 11 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | ccomp |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 victim | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 victim | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 victim | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 victim | amod |
| 16 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sacrificed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 war | det |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 victim | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | opposition | toward the temple; swiftly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | opposition not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sacrifice | past | opposition's captive | as the first victim of the war | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «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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