Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 24
He pleaded for the acceptance of the human sacrifice about to be made to the gods.
Who acts: prisoner · What happens: plead, make, accept · To what, where: human sacrifice
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), 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 pleaded | nsubj |
| 2 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 acceptance | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 acceptance | det |
| 5 | acceptance | acceptance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pleaded | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sacrifice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sacrifice | det |
| 8 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sacrifice | amod |
| 9 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acceptance | nmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 made | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 made | aux:pass |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sacrifice | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 gods | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gods | det |
| 16 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plead speech: request | past | prisoner | for the acceptance of the human sacrifice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · passive | prisoner not said here | to the gods; about property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 3 | accept | the human sacrifice | nom acceptance «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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