Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas, sentence 14
After a time various objects began to have worshippers who became priests supposed to be endowed with the qualities of the objects worshipped.
Who acts: various objects, worshippers, qualities · What happens: begin, have, become, suppose, endow, worshipp · To what, where: worshippers, priests
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka and the Seacoast Kupuas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (various objects, worshippers, qualities), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 4 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 objects | amod |
| 5 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | worshippers | worshipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worshippers | acl:relcl |
| 12 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 became | xcomp |
| 13 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 priests | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 endowed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 endowed | aux:pass |
| 16 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 supposed | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 qualities | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 qualities | det |
| 19 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 endowed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 objects | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 objects | det |
| 22 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 worshipped | obl |
| 23 | worshipped | worshipp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | various objects | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | various objects not said here | worshippers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worshipper=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | worshippers | priests | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | suppose | participle | priests not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | endow | to-infinitive · passive | with the qualities | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with quality=Theme | |||||
| 6 | worshipp | past | the qualities not said here | of the objects | tree rules |
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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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