Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 28
The largest double canoes were selected, their mat sails were made from new and strong hala leaves and they were equipped for the long voyage.
What happens: select, make, equip · To what, where: largest double canoes, mat sails, new hala leaves, sails
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Laa From Tahiti. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 canoes | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 canoes | amod |
| 3 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 canoes | amod |
| 4 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 selected | aux:pass |
| 6 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sails | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sails | compound |
| 10 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 selected | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 leaves | case |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leaves | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 strong | cc |
| 16 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 new | conj |
| 17 | hala | hala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaves | compound |
| 18 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 equipped | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 equipped | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 equipped | aux:pass |
| 22 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 voyage | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 voyage | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voyage | amod |
| 26 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 equipped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 selected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | past · passive | the largest double canoes | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | canoes's mat sails | new hala leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from leaf=Material | ||||
| 3 | equip | past · passive | sails = sail | for the long voyage | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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 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.
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