Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 49
Her outspoken speeches, for which the priests did not dare to punish her, were bearing fruit.
Who acts: priests, outspoken speeches, manu · What happens: not dare, not punish, be, speak · To what, where: manu, bearing fruit · 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 (priests, outspoken speeches, manu), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 speeches | nmod:poss |
| 2 | outspoken | outspoken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speeches | amod |
| 3 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fruit | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dare | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dare | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priests | det |
| 8 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dare | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dare | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dare | advmod |
| 11 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 speeches | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 punish | mark |
| 13 | punish | punish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dare | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 punish | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 speeches | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fruit | cop |
| 17 | bearing | bearing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fruit | amod |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fruit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past · do-support | the priests | for manu's outspoken speeches | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not punish | to-infinitive | the priests not said here | manu | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | manu's outspoken speeches | bearing fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak | manu | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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