Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 31
In my thought I see the temple servants carrying the bodies of my friends to the altars of the gods.
Who acts: I, temple, my · What happens: see, servant, carry, think · To what, where: thought, bodies, altars · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, temple, my), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 thought | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nmod:poss |
| 3 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 temple | det |
| 7 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servants | nsubj |
| 8 | servants | servant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 see | ccomp |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 servants | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bodies | det |
| 11 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carrying | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bodies | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 altars | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 altars | det |
| 17 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carrying | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 altars | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | my thought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | servant | present | the temple | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the temple not said here | the bodies of my friends | the altars of the gods | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to altar=Destination | |||
| 4 | think | my | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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