Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 207
His body was placed in the royal burial cave, in Iao Valley, back of the village Wailuku.
What happens: place · To what, where: body, royal burial cave
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cave | amod |
| 8 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | compound |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Valley | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Valley | case |
| 12 | Iao | Iao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Valley | compound |
| 13 | Valley | Valley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 back | punct |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 placed | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 back | obl |
| 19 | Wailuku | Wailuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 village | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | king's body | the royal burial cave | in Iao Valley | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in cave=Destination |
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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