Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 74
He felt that it was his high trust to protect the tabus and the worship of the gods.
Who acts: guardian, responsibility, gods · What happens: feel, be, protect, worship · To what, where: high trust, 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 (guardian, responsibility, gods), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 trust | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trust | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trust | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 trust | nmod:poss |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trust | amod |
| 8 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 protect | mark |
| 10 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tabus | det |
| 12 | tabus | tabus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 protect | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 worship | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 worship | det |
| 15 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tabus | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gods | det |
| 18 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 worship | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | guardian | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | responsibility | guardian's high trust | guardian nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | protect | to-infinitive | guardian not said here | the tabus and the worship of the gods | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tabus=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | worship | the gods | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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