rooms and hallways of furniture or obstacles

[diamondcutter]

How to Take Care of a Sleepwalker
One thing you can do to help is to clear rooms and hallways of furniture or obstacles a sleepwalker might encounter during the night. If there are stairs or dangerous areas, a grown-up should close doors and windows or install safety gates.
https://www.rchsd.org/health-articles/sleepwalking/

I wonder if rooms and hallways of furniture or obstacles means rooms and hallways which contain furniture or obstacles.

 

[Raymott]

No, it means to clear them of obstacles. Naturally, the rooms would have to have furniture and obstacles in them to need clearing.
The phrase "rooms and hallways of furniture or obstacles" can mean what you've suggested. But in this case it doesn't.
Compare: "We have to clear the land of land mines". This doesn't mean it is a land of land mines, but that the land needs to be cleared of land mines.

 

[GoesStation]

No. Look again at how you're parsing the sentence.

 

[Rover_KE]

Exactly. Your title and bolded sentences should begin with 'clear', as 'clear rooms ... of obstacles... ' means 'remove obstacles ... from rooms ....'

NOTE: AE 'hallways' = BE 'corridors'.

 

[jutfrank]

I'll repeat what's been said above, for clarity. The pattern used is this:

to clear [a place] of something