---
title: The ukulele grew out of small Portuguese guitars brought to Hawaii b… — Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percu… · tree and pragmatics
description: The ukulele grew out of small Portuguese guitars brought to Hawaii by immigrants from Madeira in the 1870s and 1880s, and was developed in Hawaii. Who acts: ukulele. A sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» of the arts course of Mova's primary school wit
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/14/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / [Instrument families: strings, wind, br…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/) / 14

# Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys, sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The ukulele grew out of small Portuguese guitars brought to Hawaii by immigrants from Madeira in the 1870s and 1880s, and was developed in Hawaii.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** ukulele · **What happens:** grow out, bring, develop · **To what, where:** small Portuguese guitars, Hawaii, 1870s

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ukulele), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:14
# text = The ukulele grew out of small Portuguese guitars brought to Hawaii by immigrants from Madeira in the 1870s and 1880s, and was developed in Hawaii.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ukulele	ukulele	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Portuguese	Portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	guitars	guitar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	immigrants	immigrant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Madeira	Madeira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	1870s	1870	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	1880s	1880	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow out** | past | the ukulele |  |  |  |  | of small Portuguese guitars; out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | participle |  | small Portuguese guitars *not said here* | Hawaii | the 1870s and 1880s |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to hawaii=Destination |
| 3 | **develop** | past · passive | the ukulele *not said here* |  |  | Hawaii |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: in hawaii=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:arts:009-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Instrument families: strings, wind, br…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/13/)
- next →: [Instrument families: strings, wind, br…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/15/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/)

