Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 70
This gave an example of the most sacred tabu chief in the land violating tabu with her little son.
Who acts: This, land · What happens: give, violate, exemplify · To what, where: example, tabu, sacred tabu chief
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 (This, land), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 example | det |
| 4 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chief | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chief | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 sacred | advmod |
| 8 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chief | amod |
| 9 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | compound |
| 10 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 example | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chief | nmod |
| 14 | violating | violate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 land | acl |
| 15 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 violating | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 violating | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | This | a example of the sacred tabu chief in the land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme | ||||
| 2 | violate | gerund | the land not said here | tabu | with liho's little son | tree rules | |||
| 3 | exemplify | the sacred tabu chief in the land | nom example «cognition 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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