Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 111
This cloth for the gods was made from the finest bark of the mulberry tree.
What happens: make · To what, where: cloth, finest bark
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 cloth | det |
| 2 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 gods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gods | det |
| 5 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cloth | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bark | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bark | det |
| 10 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 bark | amod |
| 11 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | mulberry | mulberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bark | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | this cloth for the gods | the finest bark of the mulberry tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from bark=Material |
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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