Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 68
A large amount of taro must be ready to be pounded into poi the next season for the warriors’ poi-bowls.
Who acts: large amount · What happens: be, pound, amount · To what, where: poi, taro
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 (large amount), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 amount | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 amount | amod |
| 3 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 taro | case |
| 5 | taro | taro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amount | nmod |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ready | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ready | cop |
| 8 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 pounded | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 pounded | aux:pass |
| 11 | pounded | pound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ready | xcomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 poi | case |
| 13 | poi | poi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pounded | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 season | det |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 season | amod |
| 16 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pounded | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 bowls | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 warriors | det |
| 19 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bowls | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 19 warriors | case |
| 21 | poi | poi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bowls | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 poi | punct |
| 23 | bowls | bowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pounded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | a large amount of taro | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pound | to-infinitive · passive | a large amount of taro not said here | poi | season | for the warriors's poi bowls | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: into poi=Product for bowl=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | amount | taro | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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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