Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 76
Sails of dyed kapa cloth and woven matting, new and beautifully painted, had been made ready long before, that Nanaulu’s homecoming might have no blot upon its impressive appearance.
Who acts: homecoming · What happens: weave, mat, paint, make, have · To what, where: Sails, new, blot
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 (homecoming), 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 | Sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 cloth | case |
| 3 | dyed | dyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloth | amod |
| 4 | kapa | kapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cloth | compound |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sails | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 woven | cc |
| 7 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | matting | mat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 woven | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 new | punct |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 matting | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 painted | cc |
| 12 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 13 painted | advmod |
| 13 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 new | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 woven | parataxis |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 made | xcomp |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 before | advmod |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 17 made | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 23 | Nanaulu | Nanaulu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 homecoming | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Nanaulu | case |
| 25 | homecoming | homecoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | conj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 blot | det |
| 29 | blot | blot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 appearance | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 32 | impressive | impressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 appearance | amod |
| 33 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 woven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | participle · passive | Sails of dyed kapa cloth | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | mat | gerund | new | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | paint | past | beautifully property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | before, ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 5 | have | might | Nanaulu's homecoming | no blot | upon sail's impressive appearance | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blot=Patient |
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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