Hawaiian Historical Legends, Last of the Tabu, sentence 71
Soon the king yielded and openly ate and drank with the queens at a feast in which many tabu articles were placed.
Who acts: king · What happens: yield, eat, drink, place · To what, where: feast, many tabu articles
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 (king), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 yielded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yielded | nsubj |
| 4 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ate | cc |
| 6 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 7 ate | advmod |
| 7 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yielded | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drank | cc |
| 9 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yielded | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 queens | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queens | det |
| 12 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drank | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feast | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 feast | det |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drank | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 placed | obl |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 articles | amod |
| 19 | tabu | tabu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 articles | compound |
| 20 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux:pass |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 feast | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | past | the king | soon property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | the king not said here | openly property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | the king not said here | a feast | with the queens | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | place | past · passive | many tabu articles | a feast | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
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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