Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 58
The forests were searched for the best trees from which canoes could be made.
What happens: search, make · To what, where: forests, canoes, best trees
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 forests | det |
| 2 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 searched | aux:pass |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 trees | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trees | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searched | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | obl |
| 11 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 trees | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past · passive | the forests | for the best trees | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | could · passive | canoes | the best trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from which=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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