Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 50

The indignation of the queens of Ka-meha-meha was aroused when a priest commanded that a little girl who had been caught eating bananas should have one of her eyes gouged out.

Who acts: priest, eyes · What happens: arouse, command, catch, eat, have, gouge out · To what, where: indignation, priest, little girl, bananas, one · 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 (priest, eyes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 indignation	det
2	indignation	indignation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 aroused	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 queens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queens	det
5	queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 indignation	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Ka	case
7	Ka	Ka	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 queens	appos
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 meha	punct
9	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	7 Ka	dep
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 meha	punct
11	meha	meha	X	Foreign=Yes	9 meha	flat:foreign
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 aroused	aux:pass
13	aroused	arouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 have	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 priest	det
16	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 have	nsubj
17	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 priest	acl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 girl	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 girl	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 girl	amod
21	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 commanded	advcl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 caught	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 caught	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 caught	aux:pass
25	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 girl	acl:relcl
26	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 caught	xcomp
27	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 eating	obj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 aroused	ccomp
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 have	obj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 gouged	mark
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eyes	nmod:poss
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 gouged	nsubj
34	gouged	gouge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 one	acl:relcl
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 gouged	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 aroused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	arouse	past · passive		the indignation of the queens		tree rules
2	command	participle		a priest not said here	a little girl advcl	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
3	catch	past · perfect · passive		a little girl		tree rules
4	eat	gerund		bananas		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient
5	have	should	a priest	one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
6	gouge out	past	manu's eyes			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 50