Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 232
The legends have been shorn of the fabulous element which naturally gathered around them, in order that the true names and customs of the time might be delineated.
Who acts: order · What happens: shorn, gather, delineate, name · To what, where: legends, order, fabulous element, true names, time
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 (order), 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 legends | det |
| 2 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shorn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shorn | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 shorn | aux:pass |
| 5 | shorn | shorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 element | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 element | det |
| 8 | fabulous | fabulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 element | amod |
| 9 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shorn | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 gathered | obj |
| 11 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 12 gathered | advmod |
| 12 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 element | acl:relcl |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gathered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 order | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 order | case |
| 17 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shorn | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 delineated | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 names | det |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 names | amod |
| 21 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 delineated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 customs | cc |
| 23 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 names | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 names | nmod |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 delineated | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 delineated | aux:pass |
| 29 | delineated | delineate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 order | acl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shorn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shorn | present · perfect · passive | the legends | order | of the fabulous element | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gather | past | the fabulous element | around legends = legend; naturally property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | delineate | might · passive | order not said here | the true names of the time and customs | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | the time | nom name «communication 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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