Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 43
Paao determined to substitute his son for the sacrifice he was preparing, and thus prove his guilt or innocence.
Who acts: Paao · What happens: determine, substitute, prepare, prove · To what, where: son, sacrifice, guilt
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 (Paao), 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 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 substitute | mark |
| 4 | substitute | substitute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 substitute | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sacrifice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sacrifice | det |
| 9 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 substitute | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 preparing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 preparing | aux |
| 12 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sacrifice | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prove | cc |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 prove | advmod |
| 16 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 guilt | nmod:poss |
| 18 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prove | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 innocence | cc |
| 20 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 guilt | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Paao | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | substitute | to-infinitive | Paao not said here | Paao's son | for the sacrifice | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme son=Location | |||
| 3 | prepare | past · progressive | Paao | the sacrifice not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Patient | ||||
| 4 | prove | infinitive | Paao not said here | Paao's guilt or innocence | thus property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guilt=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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