Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 173
They were his property to be burned or cut to pieces and placed in the temples of the gods.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, burn, cut, place · To what, where: property, pieces, temples
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: who acts (people), 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 | 4 property | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 property | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 property | nmod:poss |
| 4 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 burned | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 burned | aux:pass |
| 7 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 property | acl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 cut | cc |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 burned | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cut | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cut | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 temples | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 temples | det |
| 16 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gods | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gods | det |
| 19 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 temples | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 property | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | people | king's property | king nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive · passive | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | cut | participle | pieces | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to piece=Location | |||||
| 4 | place | participle | the temples of the gods | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in temple=Destination |
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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