Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 85
How the tabus were laid aside, the idols destroyed and the temples burned—all this is a matter of history.
Who acts: idols, temples, this · What happens: lay, destroy, burn, be · To what, where: tabus, matter
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 (idols, temples, this), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 laid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tabus | det |
| 3 | tabus | tabus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | aux:pass |
| 5 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 5 laid | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 destroyed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 idols | det |
| 9 | idols | idol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 destroyed | nsubj |
| 10 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laid | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 burned | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 temples | det |
| 13 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burned | nsubj |
| 14 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 destroyed | conj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 matter | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 matter | det:predet |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 matter | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 matter | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burned | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 history | case |
| 22 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 matter | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · passive | the tabus | aside property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | destroy | past | the idols | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | burn | past | the temples | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | this | all matter | of history | tree rules |
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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