Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 59

To show their contempt for Hawaii they were permitted, and probably commanded by their chief, to tear up and destroy very old and sacred portions of the heiaus, or temples.

What happens: show, permit, command, tear up, destroy · To what, where: contempt, followers, old portions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tear	advcl
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 contempt	nmod:poss
4	contempt	contempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Hawaii	case
6	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 show	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 permitted	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 permitted	aux:pass
9	permitted	permit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 show	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 commanded	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 commanded	cc
12	probably	probably	ADV	_	13 commanded	advmod
13	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 permitted	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 chief	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 chief	nmod:poss
16	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 commanded	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tear	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tear	mark
19	tear	tear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 tear	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 destroy	cc
22	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tear	conj
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 old	advmod
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 portions	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sacred	cc
26	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 old	conj
27	portions	portion	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 destroy	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 heiaus	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heiaus	det
30	heiaus	heiau	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 portions	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 temples	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 temples	cc
33	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 heiaus	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive	followers's contempt	for Hawaii	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent contempt=Recipient clause=Topic
2	permit	past · passive	followers = follower		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	command	participle		by followers's chief; probably property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent by chief=Eventuality
4	tear up	to-infinitive			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	destroy	present	old portions of the heiaus or temples		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 59

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 59