Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 51
Then came a carousal, after which a tipsy woman stumbled into her husband’s eating-house and was put to death for violating the tabu.
Who acts: tipsy woman · What happens: come, stumble, put, violate · To what, where: carousal, eating house, tabu
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 (tipsy woman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 carousal | det |
| 4 | carousal | carousal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stumbled | punct |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stumbled | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | tipsy | tipsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stumbled | nsubj |
| 11 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 husband | case |
| 16 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 eating | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stumbled | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 put | aux:pass |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stumbled | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 violating | mark |
| 25 | violating | violate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 put | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tabu | det |
| 27 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 violating | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a carousal | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location carousal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stumble | participle | a tipsy woman | manu's husband's eating house | which obl | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | past · passive | a tipsy woman not said here | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 4 | violate | gerund | a tipsy woman not said here | the tabu | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/51/