Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 177
After each one of the prayers and incantations the body was washed in the kind of water needed for each special ceremony.
What happens: wash, need · To what, where: body, kind
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 one | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 prayers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prayers | det |
| 6 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 incantations | cc |
| 8 | incantations | incantation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prayers | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 washed | aux:pass |
| 12 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 kind | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 kind | det |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 kind | acl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ceremony | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 ceremony | det |
| 21 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ceremony | amod |
| 22 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 needed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past · passive | the body | the kind of water | after each one of the prayers and incantations | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | need | participle | the kind of water not said here | for each special ceremony | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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