Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 6

The chief’s house might have a few more mats of a little finer texture, or calabashes of wood with markings a little more unique, but birth nights left fully as many beautiful children, and the hours of death took away fully as many noble men and women from the poor hut built by the taro patch as from the better-apportioned home under the silver-leaved kukui or candle-nut tree.

Who acts: house, birth nights, hours · What happens: have, leave, take away, build, apportion, leav · To what, where: few more mats, many beautiful children, many noble men, poor hut, apportioned home

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 (house, birth nights, hours), 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	2 chief	det
2	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 chief	case
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mats	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mats	amod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 mats	amod
10	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 texture	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 texture	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 texture	amod
14	finer	finer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 texture	compound
15	texture	texture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mats	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 calabashes	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 calabashes	cc
18	calabashes	calabash	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 texture	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 wood	case
20	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 calabashes	nmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 markings	case
22	markings	marking	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 calabashes	nmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 little	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 more	obl:unmarked
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 unique	advmod
26	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 markings	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 left	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 left	cc
29	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 nights	compound
30	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 left	nsubj
31	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	advcl
32	fully	fully	ADV	_	34 many	advmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 many	advmod
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 children	amod
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 children	amod
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 left	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 took	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 took	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 hours	det
40	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 took	nsubj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 death	case
42	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hours	nmod
43	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
44	away	away	ADV	_	43 took	advmod
45	fully	fully	ADV	_	47 many	advmod
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 many	advmod
47	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 men	amod
48	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 men	amod
49	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 took	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 women	cc
51	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 men	conj
52	from	from	ADP	_	55 hut	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 hut	det
54	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 hut	amod
55	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 took	obl
56	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	55 hut	acl
57	by	by	ADP	_	60 patch	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 patch	det
59	taro	taro	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 patch	compound
60	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 built	obl
61	as	as	ADV	_	67 home	advmod
62	from	from	ADP	_	67 home	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 home	det
64	better	better	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 apportioned	compound
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 better	punct
66	apportioned	apportion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	67 home	amod
67	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 built	obl
68	under	under	ADP	_	73 kukui	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 kukui	det
70	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 leaved	compound
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 silver	punct
72	leaved	leav	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	73 kukui	amod
73	kukui	kukui	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 home	nmod
74	or	or	CCONJ	_	77 nut	cc
75	candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 nut	compound
76	-	-	PUNCT	_	75 candle	punct
77	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 kukui	conj
78	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 kukui	conj
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	might	the chief's house	a few more mats of a little finer texture or calabashes of wood with markings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=Patient
2	leave	past	birth nights	many beautiful children			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
3	take away	past	the hours of death	many noble men and women	the poor hut	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme from hut=Initial_Location
4	build	participle		the poor hut not said here	the apportioned home under the leaved kukui or candle nut and tree	by the taro patch	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from home=Material
5	apportion	participle				better compound	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	leav	participle				silver compound	tree rules

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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 6

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 6