Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 73
But the guardian of the war god, Kaili, felt responsibility placed upon him by the dying charge of Ka-meha-meha.
Who acts: guardian · What happens: feel, place, die · To what, where: responsibility
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 (guardian), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 felt | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guardian | det |
| 3 | guardian | guardian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 god | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 god | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 god | compound |
| 7 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guardian | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Kaili | punct |
| 9 | Kaili | Kaili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 god | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 guardian | punct |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | responsibility | responsibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | obj |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 responsibility | acl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 charge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 charge | det |
| 18 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 charge | amod |
| 19 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Ka | case |
| 21 | Ka | Ka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 charge | appos |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 meha | punct |
| 23 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 Ka | dep |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 meha | punct |
| 25 | meha | meha | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 meha | flat:foreign |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the guardian of the war god | responsibility | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | responsibility not said here | upon guardian; by the dying charge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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