Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 76
The priests and chiefs who wished to perpetuate tabu gathered around him and a rebellion was instituted.
Who acts: priests · What happens: wish, perpetuate, gather, institute · To what, where: tabu, rebellion
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 (priests), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 priests | det |
| 2 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chiefs | cc |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 priests | conj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wished | nsubj |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 priests | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 perpetuate | mark |
| 8 | perpetuate | perpetuate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wished | xcomp |
| 9 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perpetuate | obj |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gathered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 instituted | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rebellion | det |
| 15 | rebellion | rebellion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 instituted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 instituted | aux:pass |
| 17 | instituted | institute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gathered | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the priests and chiefs | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | perpetuate not said to happen | to-infinitive | the priests and chiefs not said here | tabu | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tabu=Patient | ||||
| 3 | gather | past | the priests and chiefs | around guardian | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | institute | past · passive | a rebellion | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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