Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 191

The stone was to be rolled more than the ordinary distance, made to pass between two upright sticks, then between two more posts, and then some distance beyond strike a mark set up in the centre of the track.

What happens: roll, make, pass, set up · To what, where: stone, two upright sticks, mark, centre

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: 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 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rolled	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 rolled	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rolled	aux:pass
6	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 rolled	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 distance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 distance	det
10	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 distance	amod
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rolled	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pass	mark
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
16	between	between	ADP	_	19 sticks	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sticks	nummod
18	upright	upright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sticks	amod
19	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pass	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 posts	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 posts	advmod
22	between	between	ADP	_	25 posts	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 posts	nummod
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 posts	amod
25	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pass	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 distance	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 distance	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 distance	advmod
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 distance	det
30	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rolled	obl
31	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	32 strike	case
32	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distance	nmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 mark	det
34	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distance	conj
35	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 mark	acl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 set	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 centre	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 centre	det
39	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 set	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 track	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 track	det
42	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 centre	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	roll	past · passive	the stone		some distance beyond strike and a mark obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme more=Result
2	make	participle				tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive		two upright sticks	between two more posts	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between stick=Location
4	set up	participle	a mark not said here	the centre of the track		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in centre=Destination

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, The Sons of Kii, sentence 191

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Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 191