Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 22
One day Lonopele came to the temple where his brother was making ready to sacrifice a sacred black hog.
Who acts: Lonopele, brother · What happens: come, make, sacrifice · To what, where: temple, sacred black hog
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 (Lonopele, brother), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Lonopele | Lonopele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 temple | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 temple | det |
| 7 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 making | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 making | aux |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 temple | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 making | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sacrifice | mark |
| 15 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hog | det |
| 17 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hog | amod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hog | amod |
| 19 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sacrifice | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Lonopele | the temple | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | make | past · progressive | Lonopele's brother | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | Lonopele's brother not said here | a sacred black hog | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hog=Theme |
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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