Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 39
He must take his own offering to the fire as to an altar in a temple.
Who acts: King · What happens: take, offer · To what, where: own offering, temple
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 offering | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 offering | amod |
| 6 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fire | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 altar | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 altar | det |
| 13 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 temple | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 temple | det |
| 16 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | must | King | King's own offering | a temple | to the fire; as a altar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent offering=Theme to fire=Destination | ||
| 2 | offer | King | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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