Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 135
Native cloth, brilliantly coloured, was taken from its wrappings.
What happens: take · To what, where: Native cloth, wrappings
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. 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 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cloth | amod |
| 2 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 coloured | punct |
| 4 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 5 coloured | advmod |
| 5 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cloth | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cloth | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 wrappings | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wrappings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wrappings | wrapping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taken | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | Native cloth | cloth's wrappings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from wrapping=Initial_Location |
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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