Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 159
Frequently a board was tied between the sticks and a piece of matting laid upon it for the benefit of the rider.
Who acts: piece · What happens: tie, mat, lay · To what, where: board
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), 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 | Frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 5 tied | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 board | det |
| 3 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | aux:pass |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 sticks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sticks | det |
| 8 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 piece | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 piece | det |
| 11 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sticks | conj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 matting | mark |
| 13 | matting | mat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 piece | acl |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 matting | xcomp |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 benefit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 benefit | det |
| 19 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rider | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rider | det |
| 22 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 benefit | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | a board | between the sticks and a piece; frequently property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mat | gerund | a piece not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lay | participle | a piece not said here | upon hardwood; for the benefit of the rider | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for benefit=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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