Hawaiian Historical Legends, Laa From Tahiti, sentence 41
It was made by cutting out the pithy heart of a section of a large cocoanut tree, and thinning the shell as far as safety would allow.
Who acts: safety · What happens: make, cut out, thin, allow, section · To what, where: drum, pithy heart, shell, large cocoanut tree
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: who acts (safety), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 cutting | mark |
| 5 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 cutting | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 8 | pithy | pithy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heart | amod |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutting | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 section | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 section | det |
| 12 | section | section | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 16 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 section | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thinning | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thinning | cc |
| 20 | thinning | thin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shell | det |
| 22 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thinning | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 thinning | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 allow | mark |
| 26 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 allow | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 allow | aux |
| 28 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 far | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | drum | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | cut out | gerund | the pithy heart of a section of a large cocoanut tree | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector heart=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | thin | gerund | the shell | far property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | ||||
| 4 | allow | would | safety | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 5 | section | a large cocoanut tree | nom section «communication 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 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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