Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 146
Land in Puna, near Hilo, was set apart for their dwelling-place.
What happens: set apart · To what, where: Land
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 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Puna | case |
| 3 | Puna | Puna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Land | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hilo | punct |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 Hilo | case |
| 6 | Hilo | Hilo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Puna | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Land | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux:pass |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 9 set | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwelling | punct |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set apart | past · passive | Land in Puna and Hilo | for Puna's dwelling place; apart property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for place=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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