Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 21

The “ivory” was usually made into a “hooked ornament” with a large hole almost in the middle, through which was passed a large number of strings of human hairs, thus forming a necklace unique and costly.

What happens: make, pass, form · To what, where: ivory, hooked ornament, large number, necklace

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. 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	3 ivory	det
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 ivory	punct
3	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	nsubj:pass
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ivory	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 ornament	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ornament	det
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 ornament	punct
11	hooked	hooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ornament	amod
12	ornament	ornament	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 ornament	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 hole	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hole	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hole	amod
17	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ornament	nmod
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 middle	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 middle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 middle	det
21	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hole	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 passed	punct
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 passed	obl
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 passed	aux:pass
26	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 made	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 number	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 number	amod
29	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 passed	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 strings	case
31	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 number	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hairs	case
33	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hairs	amod
34	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 strings	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 forming	punct
36	thus	thus	ADV	_	37 forming	advmod
37	forming	form	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 passed	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 necklace	det
39	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 forming	obj
40	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 forming	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 costly	cc
42	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 unique	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive	the ivory	a hooked ornament with a large hole in the middle	usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into ornament=Product
2	pass	past · passive	a large number of strings of human hairs		which obl	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: number=Theme through which=Destination
3	form	gerund	a necklace		thus, unique property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location necklace=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 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 21

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 21