Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 171
The days of human sacrifices among the Hawaiians had not passed by.
What happens: not pass by · To what, where: days
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sacrifices | case |
| 4 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sacrifices | amod |
| 5 | sacrifices | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | nmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 Hawaiians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hawaiians | det |
| 8 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 sacrifices | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 passed | advmod |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 passed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass by | past · perfect · passive | the days of human sacrifices among the Hawaiians | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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