Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 64
At that time Ka-ahu-manu proposed that they henceforth disregard the tabus.
Who acts: temples · What happens: propose, disregard · To what, where: ahu manu, tabus
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 (temples), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manu | obl |
| 4 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 manu | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ka | punct |
| 6 | ahu | ahu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manu | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 manu | punct |
| 8 | manu | manu | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 manu | acl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 disregard | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 disregard | nsubj |
| 12 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 13 disregard | advmod |
| 13 | disregard | disregard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 proposed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tabus | det |
| 15 | tabus | tabus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disregard | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 manu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | participle | ahu manu at that time Ka not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | disregard | present | temples = temple | the tabus | henceforth property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabus=Theme |
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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