Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 65
They were supposed to punish severely any injuries received by those under their care.
Who acts: natives · What happens: suppose, punish, receive, care · To what, where: natives, injuries
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 (natives), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 supposed | aux:pass |
| 3 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 punish | mark |
| 5 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 supposed | xcomp |
| 6 | severely | severely | ADV | _ | 5 punish | advmod |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 injuries | det |
| 8 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 punish | obj |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 injuries | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 those | case |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 received | obl |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 care | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 care | nmod:poss |
| 14 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 those | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | natives = native | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | punish | to-infinitive | any injuries | severely property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient | ||||
| 3 | receive | participle | any injuries not said here | by any injuries | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by that=Location | ||||
| 4 | care | natives = native | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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