Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 173
It was not until the sanctity of the temples was attacked that the chiefs decided that even royal blood of many generations might become too impure for a ruling chief.
Who acts: chiefs, royal blood · What happens: not attack, decide, become, rule · To what, where: line · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chiefs, royal blood), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attacked | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 attacked | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 attacked | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sanctity | det |
| 6 | sanctity | sanctity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 temples | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 temples | det |
| 9 | temples | temple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sanctity | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attacked | aux:pass |
| 11 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 decided | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chiefs | det |
| 14 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 decided | nsubj |
| 15 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attacked | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 become | mark |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 blood | advmod |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blood | amod |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 become | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 generations | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 generations | amod |
| 22 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blood | nmod |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 become | aux |
| 24 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 decided | ccomp |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 impure | advmod |
| 26 | impure | impure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 become | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 chief | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 chief | det |
| 29 | ruling | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 chief | amod |
| 30 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 impure | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not attack | past · passive | line | the sanctity of the temples nsubj:pass | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | the chiefs | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | become | might | royal blood of many generations | impure property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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