Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 235
The separation between chiefs and common people became a gulf fixed by custom.
Who acts: separation · What happens: become, fix · To what, where: gulf
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 (separation), 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 separation | det |
| 2 | separation | separation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | nsubj |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 chiefs | case |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 separation | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 people | cc |
| 6 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chiefs | conj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 gulf | det |
| 10 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 became | xcomp |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gulf | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 custom | case |
| 13 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fixed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the separation between chiefs and common people | a gulf | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | a gulf not said here | by custom | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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