Hawaiian Historical Legends, A Viking of the Pacific, sentence 58
So also some of the most ancient temples were referred to the mysterious midnight labors of this people.
What happens: refer · To what, where: some, mysterious midnight labors
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, A Viking of the Pacific. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 some | advmod |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 some | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 temples | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 temples | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 ancient | advmod |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 temples | amod |
| 8 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 some | nmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 referred | aux:pass |
| 10 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 labors | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 labors | det |
| 13 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 labors | amod |
| 14 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 labors | compound |
| 15 | labors | labor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 referred | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 labors | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | past · passive | some of the ancient temples | the mysterious midnight labors of this people | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to labor=Recipient |
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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