Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 40
Nights were spent in revelry and days in feasting until the ceremonies of installation were completed.
What happens: spend, complete · To what, where: Nights, revelry, ceremonies
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. 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 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spent | aux:pass |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 revelry | case |
| 5 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 days | cc |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 revelry | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 feasting | case |
| 9 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 completed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ceremonies | det |
| 12 | ceremonies | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 installation | case |
| 14 | installation | installation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceremonies | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 completed | aux:pass |
| 16 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spent | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · passive | Nights | revelry and days | in feasting | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | |||
| 2 | complete | past · passive | the ceremonies of installation | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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