Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 22
Small portions of the ivory were pierced and fashioned into beads.
What happens: pierce · To what, where: Small portions
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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 portions | amod |
| 2 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pierced | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ivory | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ivory | det |
| 5 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 portions | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pierced | aux:pass |
| 7 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fashioned | cc |
| 9 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pierced | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 beads | case |
| 11 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fashioned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | past · passive | Small portions of the ivory | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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