Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 58
Priests were occupied with signs and incantations to discover some one who might have prayed the great king to death.
Who acts: Priests · What happens: be, discover, pray · To what, where: one
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), 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 | Priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occupied | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 occupied | cop |
| 3 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 signs | case |
| 5 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 occupied | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 incantations | cc |
| 7 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 signs | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 discover | mark |
| 9 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 occupied | advcl |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discover | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 prayed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 prayed | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prayed | aux |
| 15 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 king | amod |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prayed | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prayed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Priests | with signs and incantations; occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | Priests not said here | some one | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pray | might · perfect · passive | some one | to death; the great king obj | 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.
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