Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 60
He urged that a spear be thrown to pierce him through the stomach.
Who acts: captive · What happens: urge, throw, pierce · To what, where: spear, captive
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 urged | nsubj |
| 2 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 thrown | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spear | det |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thrown | aux:pass |
| 7 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 urged | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pierce | mark |
| 9 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 thrown | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pierce | obj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 stomach | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stomach | det |
| 13 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pierce | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 urged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urge | past | captive | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | throw | infinitive · passive | a spear | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pierce | to-infinitive | captive | through the stomach | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Instrument through stomach=Patient |
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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