Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 66
He thought of the naked altars of his own Waipio temple, to which he had brought no captives to be slain in sacrifice.
Who acts: chief · What happens: think, bring, slay · To what, where: captives, sacrifice
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 | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 altars | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 altars | det |
| 5 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 altars | amod |
| 6 | altars | altar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 temple | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 temple | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 temple | amod |
| 10 | Waipio | Waipio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 temple | compound |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 altars | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 brought | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | aux |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 captives | det |
| 19 | captives | captive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 brought | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 slain | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 slain | aux:pass |
| 22 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 brought | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sacrifice | case |
| 24 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 slain | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | chief | of the naked altars of chief's own Waipio temple | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect | chief | no captives | which obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent captive=Theme to which=Destination | |||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive · passive | chief not said here | sacrifice | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP» |
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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