Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 87
No one has written of the joy of Oluolu in the life of broader privileges secured by abolishing the tabu system.
What happens: write, secure, abolish, joy · To what, where: one, life, broader privileges, tabu system, Oluolu
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: 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 joy | det |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Oluolu | case |
| 9 | Oluolu | Oluolu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joy | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 life | det |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 written | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 privileges | case |
| 14 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 privileges | amod |
| 15 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 life | nmod |
| 16 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 privileges | acl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 abolishing | mark |
| 18 | abolishing | abolish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 secured | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 system | det |
| 20 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 system | compound |
| 21 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 abolishing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | present · perfect · passive | no one | the life of broader privileges | of the joy of Oluolu | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in life=Destination | |||
| 2 | secure | participle | broader privileges not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | abolish | gerund | the tabu system | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme | |||||
| 4 | joy | Oluolu | nom joy «feeling 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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