Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 57
Even the ordinary restraints of savage society were laid aside.
What happens: lay, restrain · To what, where: ordinary restraints, savage society
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: 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 9 laid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 restraints | det |
| 3 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 restraints | amod |
| 4 | restraints | restraint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 laid | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 society | case |
| 6 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 society | amod |
| 7 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 restraints | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | aux:pass |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 9 laid | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | the ordinary restraints of savage society | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | restrain | savage society | nom restraint «act transitive»: of=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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