Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 54
The temple was apparently deserted at the time of the overthrow of the tabu in 1819, and the priests had gone to the lower and better cultivated lands of Puna, where they had their headquarters.
Who acts: priests · What happens: desert, go, cultivate, have, overthrow · To what, where: temple, lower lands, headquarters, tabu
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 (priests), 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 temple | det |
| 2 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deserted | aux:pass |
| 4 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 5 deserted | advmod |
| 5 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deserted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 overthrow | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 overthrow | det |
| 11 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tabu | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tabu | det |
| 14 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overthrow | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 1819 | case |
| 16 | 1819 | 1819 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 tabu | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gone | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gone | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 priests | det |
| 20 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gone | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 deserted | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 lands | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lands | det |
| 25 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 lands | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 cultivated | cc |
| 27 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 cultivated | advmod |
| 28 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 lower | conj |
| 29 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gone | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Puna | case |
| 31 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lands | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 had | advmod |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 had | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 lands | conj |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 headquarters | nmod:poss |
| 37 | headquarters | headquarters | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 35 had | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deserted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desert | past · passive | the temple | time | apparently property | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the priests | the lower lands of Puna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cultivate | participle | the priests not said here | well property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Priests = priest | Priests's headquarters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headquarters=Patient | ||||
| 5 | overthrow | the tabu in 1819 | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=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 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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