Hawaiian Historical Legends, Maui the Polynesian, sentence 48
The thatch rapidly rotted and required continual renewal.
What happens: rot, require · To what, where: thatch, continual renewal
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Maui the Polynesian. 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 | 2 thatch | det |
| 2 | thatch | thatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rotted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 4 rotted | advmod |
| 4 | rotted | rot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 required | cc |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rotted | conj |
| 7 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 renewal | amod |
| 8 | renewal | renewal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 required | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rot | participle · passive | the thatch | rapidly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | require | participle | continual renewal | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme renewal=Precondition |
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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