Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 46
When the flush of indignant anger had passed, Paao grieved over the body which lay decomposing upon the altar.
Who acts: Paao, body · What happens: pass, grieve, lie, decompose · To what, where: flush, body
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, body), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flush | det |
| 3 | flush | flush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 anger | case |
| 5 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 anger | amod |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flush | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | aux |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 grieved | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
| 10 | Paao | Paao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 grieved | nsubj |
| 11 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 body | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grieved | obl |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 body | acl:relcl |
| 17 | decomposing | decompose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 lay | xcomp |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 altar | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 altar | det |
| 20 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 decomposing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | the flush of indignant anger | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | grieve | past | Paao | the body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the body | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | decompose | gerund | the body not said here | upon the altar | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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