Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 88

And no one has described the old woman who could not understand the new order of things, but sat in the door of the grass house in the valley and grieved over the shattered doctrines of her forefathers.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: describe, not understand, sit, grieve, order, indoctrinate · To what, where: one, new order, door, shattered doctrines, things, forefathers

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 (old woman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 described	cc
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 described	aux
5	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 described	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 understand	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 understand	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 understand	advmod
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 woman	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 order	det
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 order	amod
15	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 understand	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 order	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sat	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 sat	cc
20	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 described	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 door	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	compound
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 valley	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 valley	det
30	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sat	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 grieved	cc
32	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 sat	conj
33	over	over	ADP	_	36 doctrines	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 doctrines	det
35	shattered	shattered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 doctrines	amod
36	doctrines	doctrine	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grieved	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 forefathers	case
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 forefathers	nmod:poss
39	forefathers	forefather	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 doctrines	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present · perfect · passive		no one		the old woman obj	tree rules
2	not understand	could	the old woman	the new order of things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus
3	sit	past			the door of the grass house	in the valley	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in door=Location
4	grieve	participle			the shattered doctrines of Kailua's forefathers		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	order			things			nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	indoctrinate			Kailua's forefathers			nom doctrine «cognition 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 88

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 88