Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 3
The long rushes and grasses from the sea marshes and the long leaves of the pandanus tree made a very good if not a very enduring home.
Who acts: long rushes · What happens: make
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long rushes), 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 rushes | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rushes | amod |
| 3 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 made | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grasses | cc |
| 5 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rushes | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 marshes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marshes | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marshes | compound |
| 9 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rushes | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 leaves | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leaves | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leaves | amod |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 marshes | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | pandanus | pandanus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaves | nmod |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 good | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 made | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 home | mark |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 home | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 home | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 enduring | advmod |
| 26 | enduring | enduring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 home | amod |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the long rushes from the sea marshes and the long leaves of the pandanus tree and grasses | a enduring home advcl; good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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