--- title: The chief’s house might have a few more mats of a little finer textu… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics description: The chief’s house might have a few more mats of a little finer texture, or calabashes of wood with markings a little more unique, but birth nights left fully as many beautiful children, and the hours of death took away fully as many noble men and women from the poor hut built by the taro patch as fr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [Last of the Tabu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/) / 6 # Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 6 The chief’s house might have a few more mats of a little finer texture, or calabashes of wood with markings a little more unique, but birth nights left fully as many beautiful children, and the hours of death took away fully as many noble men and women from the poor hut built by the taro patch as from the better-apportioned home under the silver-leaved kukui or candle-nut tree. **Who acts:** house, birth nights, hours · **What happens:** have, leave, take away, build, apportion, leav · **To what, where:** few more mats, many beautiful children, many noble men, poor hut, apportioned home This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Last of the Tabu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, birth nights, hours), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66357:19:6 # text = The chief’s house might have a few more mats of a little finer texture, or calabashes of wood with markings a little more unique, but birth nights left fully as many beautiful children, and the hours of death took away fully as many noble men and women from the poor hut built by the taro patch as from the better-apportioned home under the silver-leaved kukui or candle-nut tree. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 mats mat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 finer finer NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 texture texture NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 calabashes calabash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 markings marking NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 25 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 32 fully fully ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 44 away away ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 fully fully ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 as as ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 conj _ _ 52 from from ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 56 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 55 acl _ _ 57 by by ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 taro taro NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 61 as as ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 62 from from ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 64 better better NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 65 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 apportioned apportion VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 67 amod _ _ 67 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ _ 68 under under ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 69 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 70 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 72 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 71 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 70 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 leaved leav VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 73 amod _ _ 73 kukui kukui NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 nmod _ _ 74 or or CCONJ CC _ 77 cc _ _ 75 candle candle NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 76 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 75 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 77 nut nut NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 conj _ _ 78 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | might | the chief's house | a few more mats of a little finer texture or calabashes of wood with markings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | past | birth nights | many beautiful children | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 3 | **take away** | past | the hours of death | many noble men and women | | the poor hut | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme from hut=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **build** | participle | | the poor hut *not said here* | | the apportioned home under the leaved kukui or candle nut and tree | | by the taro patch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from home=Material | | 5 | **apportion** | participle | | | | | | better *compound* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **leav** | participle | | | | | | silver *compound* | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/7/) - ↑ back to [Last of the Tabu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/19/)