Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 56
But there was an indescribable scene of riotous confusion and revelry and lust.
What happens: be · To what, where: indescribable scene
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 scene | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scene | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scene | det |
| 5 | indescribable | indescribable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scene | amod |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 confusion | case |
| 8 | riotous | riotous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 confusion | amod |
| 9 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scene | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 revelry | cc |
| 11 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confusion | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lust | cc |
| 13 | lust | lust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confusion | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a indescribable scene | of riotous confusion and revelry and lust | 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.
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