Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 114
Then followed match after match, sometimes interspersed with boxing.
What happens: follow, intersperse · To what, where: match
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 followed | advmod |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 match | case |
| 5 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 interspersed | punct |
| 7 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 interspersed | advmod |
| 8 | interspersed | intersperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 boxing | case |
| 10 | boxing | boxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interspersed | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | match | after match; then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme | ||||
| 2 | intersperse | participle | with boxing; sometimes property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with boxing=Co-Patient |
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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