Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 168
The Hilo people were separated from the families of the other district.
What happens: separate · To what, where: Hilo people
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 separated | aux:pass |
| 5 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 families | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 families | det |
| 8 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 separated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 district | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 district | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 district | amod |
| 12 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 families | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | past · passive | the Hilo people | from the families of the other district | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from family=Co-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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