---
title: They were supposed to punish severely any injuries received by those… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: They were supposed to punish severely any injuries received by those under their care. Who acts: natives. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/65/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Red Mouth Gun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/) / 65

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Red Mouth Gun, sentence 65

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They were supposed to punish severely any injuries received by those under their care.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** suppose, punish, receive, care · **To what, where:** natives, injuries

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Red Mouth Gun. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:17:65
# text = They were supposed to punish severely any injuries received by those under their care.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | past · passive |  | natives *= native* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **punish** | to-infinitive |  | any injuries |  |  |  | severely *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | participle |  | any injuries *not said here* |  |  |  | by any injuries | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by that=Location |
| 4 | **care** |  | natives *= native* |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/64/)
- next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/66/)
- ↑ back to [The Red Mouth Gun](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/17/)