Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 62
The palace, of course, was only a large thatched house and could be easily replaced, but the posts, consecrated by the blood of human sacrifices and cared for through many generations, were irretrievably lost.
Who acts: palace · What happens: thatch, be, replace, consecrate, care, lose · To what, where: large thatched house, posts
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: who acts (palace), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 course | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 palace | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 palace | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 house | cop |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 house | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 11 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 replaced | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 replaced | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 replaced | aux:pass |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 17 replaced | advmod |
| 17 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 lost | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 lost | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 posts | det |
| 21 | posts | post | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 consecrated | punct |
| 23 | consecrated | consecrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 posts | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 blood | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 blood | det |
| 26 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 consecrated | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sacrifices | case |
| 28 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sacrifices | amod |
| 29 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 blood | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cared | cc |
| 31 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 consecrated | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 generations | case |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 generations | case |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 generations | amod |
| 35 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 cared | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 posts | punct |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 lost | aux:pass |
| 38 | irretrievably | irretrievably | ADV | _ | 39 lost | advmod |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thatch | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the palace and course | a large thatched house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | replace | could · passive | the palace and course not said here | easily property | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme» | ||||
| 4 | consecrate | participle | the posts not said here | by the blood of human sacrifices | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | care | past | for many generations | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for generation=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lose | past · passive | the posts | irretrievably property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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