Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 42
Fathers and mothers readily gave away their babes, or slew them with their own hands.
Who acts: Fathers · What happens: give away, slay · To what, where: babes
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 (Fathers), 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 | Fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 mothers | cc |
| 3 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fathers | conj |
| 4 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 babes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slew | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 slew | cc |
| 11 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slew | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hands | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hands | amod |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give away | past | Fathers and mothers | mothers's babes | away, readily property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent babe=Theme | |||
| 2 | slay | past | Fathers and mothers not said here | babes = babe | with babes's own hands | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with hand=Instrument |
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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