Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 163
The hunters of the district were required to search the mountain forests for birds of rare plumage, whose feathers the women were required to weave in mantles and helmets.
Who acts: feathers · What happens: require, search, weave · To what, where: hunters, mountain forests, women, mantles
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: who acts (feathers), 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 hunters | det |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 required | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 district | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 district | det |
| 5 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunters | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 required | aux:pass |
| 7 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 search | mark |
| 9 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 required | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forests | det |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forests | compound |
| 12 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 search | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 birds | case |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 search | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 plumage | case |
| 16 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plumage | amod |
| 17 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 birds | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 feathers | punct |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 plumage | appos |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 women | det |
| 22 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 required | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 required | aux:pass |
| 24 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 feathers | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 weave | mark |
| 26 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 required | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 mantles | case |
| 28 | mantles | mantle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 weave | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 helmets | cc |
| 30 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 mantles | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 required | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | require | past · passive | the hunters of the district | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | the mountain forests | for birds of rare plumage | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent forest=Location for bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | require | past · passive | rare plumage's feathers not said here | the women | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | weave | to-infinitive | rare plumage's feathers not said here | mantles and helmets | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mantle=Trajectory |
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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