Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 23
He invoked the gods of the home land to make friendly the gods of any new country to which the sailors might go.
Who acts: prisoner, sailors · What happens: invoke, make, go · To what, where: gods, friendly gods, new country
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, sailors), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 invoked | nsubj |
| 2 | invoked | invoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gods | det |
| 4 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 invoked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 land | compound |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gods | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 invoked | advcl |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gods | amod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gods | det |
| 13 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 country | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 country | amod |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gods | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 go | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sailors | det |
| 21 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 country | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 invoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invoke | past | prisoner | the gods of the home land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | prisoner not said here | the friendly gods of any new country | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset god=Product | ||||
| 3 | go | might | the sailors | any new country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial_Location |
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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