Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 61
However, some of the people violated different tabus and suffered no injury.
Who acts: some · What happens: violate, suffer · To what, where: different tabus, injury
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 (some), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 7 violated | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 violated | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 7 | violated | violate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tabus | amod |
| 9 | tabus | tabus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 violated | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suffered | cc |
| 11 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 violated | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 injury | det |
| 13 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 suffered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 violated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | violate | past | some of the people | different tabus | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | suffer | past | some of the people not said here | no injury | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer injury=Stimulus |
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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