Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 167
Certain large grass houses were set apart for the large assembly.
What happens: set apart · To what, where: Certain large grass houses
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. 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 | Certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 houses | amod |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 houses | amod |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 houses | compound |
| 4 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 assembly | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 assembly | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 assembly | amod |
| 11 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set apart | past · passive | Certain large grass houses | for the large assembly; apart property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for assembly=Beneficiary |
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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