Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 65
He was thinking of the bodies of his warriors laid on the altars before the gods of the southern districts of the island.
Who acts: chief · What happens: think, lay · To what, where: warriors
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 (chief), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bodies | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thinking | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 warriors | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bodies | nmod |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 warriors | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 altars | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 altars | det |
| 13 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obl:agent |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 districts | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 districts | det |
| 19 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 districts | amod |
| 20 | districts | district | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gods | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 districts | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | chief | of the bodies of chief's warriors | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | chief's warriors not said here | before the gods of the southern districts of the island | the altars obl:agent | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before god=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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