Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 4
There the chiefs and common people alike were born, and out of such grass houses their bodies were carried when life was over.
Who acts: life · What happens: bear, carry, be · To what, where: chiefs, bodies, such grass houses
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 (life), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 born | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chiefs | det |
| 3 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 people | cc |
| 5 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 people | amod |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 6 people | advmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 houses | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 houses | case |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 houses | amod |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 houses | compound |
| 16 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carried | obl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 carried | aux:pass |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 born | conj |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 over | advmod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 over | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 over | cop |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 carried | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the chiefs | there | common people nsubj:pass | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | people's bodies | such grass houses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme out house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | life | over property | tree rules |
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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