Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 50
The sides of the boats were to be built two or three feet higher.
What happens: build · To what, where: sides
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sides | det |
| 2 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 built | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 boats | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boats | det |
| 5 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sides | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 built | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 built | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 built | aux:pass |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 feet | nummod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 three | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 two | conj |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 built | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the sides of the boats | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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