Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 66
Sometimes they made this paper-cloth into waterproof cloaks and sheets by soaking it in cocoanut or kukui nut oil.
Who acts: makers · What happens: make, soak · To what, where: paper cloth, waterproof cloaks, cloth
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: who acts (makers), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cloth | det |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cloth | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 paper | punct |
| 7 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 cloaks | case |
| 9 | waterproof | waterproof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cloaks | amod |
| 10 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sheets | cc |
| 12 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cloaks | conj |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 soaking | mark |
| 14 | soaking | soak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 soaking | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 cocoanut | case |
| 17 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soaking | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 oil | cc |
| 19 | kukui | kukui | X | Foreign=Yes | 21 oil | dep |
| 20 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 oil | compound |
| 21 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cocoanut | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | makers = maker | this paper cloth | waterproof cloaks and sheets | sometimes property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent cloth=Material into cloak=Product | ||
| 2 | soak | gerund | makers = maker not said here | cloth | in cocoanut or nut oil | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination in cocoanut=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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