Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 27
The importance of the plans of the high chiefs was made evident by this large human sacrifice.
Who acts: large human sacrifice · What happens: make, plan · To what, where: importance, high chiefs
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 (large human sacrifice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 importance | det |
| 2 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 plans | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plans | det |
| 5 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 importance | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 chiefs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chiefs | amod |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plans | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 sacrifice | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sacrifice | amod |
| 16 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sacrifice | amod |
| 17 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | large human sacrifice this | the importance of the plans of the high chiefs | evident property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 2 | plan | the high chiefs | nom plan «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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