Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 33
“Many people think that the tabu is not right, and that the threatened punishments come not from the gods, but from the priests themselves.
Who acts: Many people, tabu, threatened punishments · What happens: think, not be, not come · To what, where: priests · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many people, tabu, threatened punishments), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 right | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tabu | det |
| 7 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 right | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 right | advmod |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 think | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 come | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 punishments | det |
| 15 | threatened | threatened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 punishments | amod |
| 16 | punishments | punishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 gods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gods | det |
| 21 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 priests | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 priests | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 priests | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 priests | det |
| 26 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | obl |
| 27 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 priests | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Many people | the priests punishments | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the tabu | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not come in a quote | present | the threatened punishments | from the gods | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from god=Initial_Location |
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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