Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 17
The natives were astonished to see the perfect safety of the missionaries, although the worship and tabus of Pele were absolutely ignored.
Who acts: natives · What happens: be, see, ignore · To what, where: perfect safety, worship · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 natives | det |
| 2 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 astonished | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 safety | det |
| 8 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 safety | amod |
| 9 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 missionaries | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 missionaries | det |
| 12 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 safety | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ignored | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 23 ignored | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 worship | det |
| 16 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ignored | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tabus | cc |
| 18 | tabus | tabus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 worship | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Pele | case |
| 20 | Pele | Pele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tabus | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ignored | aux:pass |
| 22 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 23 ignored | advmod |
| 23 | ignored | ignore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the natives | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the natives not said here | the perfect safety of the missionaries | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ignore | past · passive | the worship and tabus of Pele | absolutely property | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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