Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 149
With his own hands Hewa-hewa set fire to shrines and idols, overthrowing the system of worship and sacred tabu which Paao had established nearly 700 years before.
Who acts: system · What happens: overthrow, establish · To what, where: system, Hewa set fire
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (system), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 hands | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hands | amod |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fire | obl |
| 5 | Hewa | Hewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fire | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hewa | punct |
| 7 | hewa | hewa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | compound |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fire | compound |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 shrines | case |
| 11 | shrines | shrine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fire | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 idols | cc |
| 13 | idols | idol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shrines | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 overthrowing | punct |
| 15 | overthrowing | overthrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fire | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 system | det |
| 17 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 overthrowing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 worship | case |
| 19 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 system | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tabu | cc |
| 21 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tabu | amod |
| 22 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worship | conj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 established | nsubj |
| 24 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 established | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 established | aux |
| 26 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 system | acl:relcl |
| 27 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 28 700 | advmod |
| 28 | 700 | 700 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 established | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 established | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overthrow | gerund | the system of worship and sacred tabu | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | establish | past · perfect | the system of worship and sacred tabu | year | Paao nsubj; before property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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