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title: A large amount of taro must be ready to be pounded into poi the next… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: A large amount of taro must be ready to be pounded into poi the next season for the warriors’ poi-bowls. Who acts: large amount. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 68

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A large amount of taro must be ready to be pounded into poi the next season for the warriors’ poi-bowls.

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**Who acts:** large amount · **What happens:** be, pound, amount · **To what, where:** poi, taro

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large amount), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:14:68
# text = A large amount of taro must be ready to be pounded into poi the next season for the warriors’ poi-bowls.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	taro	taro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	pounded	pound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	poi	poi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	poi	poi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must | a large amount of taro |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pound** | to-infinitive · passive | a large amount of taro *not said here* |  |  | poi | season | for the warriors's poi bowls | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: into poi=Product for bowl=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **amount** |  |  | taro |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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