Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 59
He saw them and called to one of them to kill him rather than let him be sacrificed alive.
Who acts: captive · What happens: see, call, kill, let, sacrifice · To what, where: friends, one, captive · 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 (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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 called | cc |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 called | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kill | obj |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 let | cc |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 rather | fixed |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kill | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 18 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 let | xcomp |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sacrificed | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | captive | friends = friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | past | captive not said here | one of friends | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | captive not said here | captive | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | captive not said here | captive | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sacrifice | infinitive · passive | captive not said here | alive property | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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