Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 47
She saw the priests and their spies becoming more vigilant and more violent.
Who acts: manu, spies · What happens: see, become · To what, where: priests
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 (manu, spies), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 priests | det |
| 4 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 becoming | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spies | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spies | spy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 becoming | nsubj |
| 8 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 vigilant | advmod |
| 10 | vigilant | vigilant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 becoming | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 violent | cc |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 violent | advmod |
| 13 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 vigilant | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | manu | the priests | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer priest=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | gerund | priests's spies | vigilant property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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