Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 42
A terrific beating of drums followed, the people fell upon their faces; even the high chiefs prostrated themselves.
Who acts: terrific beating, high chiefs · What happens: follow, fall, prostrate, beat · To what, where: drums, faces, chiefs
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: who acts (terrific beating, high chiefs), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beating | det |
| 2 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beating | amod |
| 3 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 drums | case |
| 5 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beating | nmod |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 drums | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beating | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 faces | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 faces | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 prostrated | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 chiefs | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chiefs | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chiefs | amod |
| 18 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 prostrated | nsubj |
| 19 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 prostrated | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | drums not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | a terrific beating of drums | people's faces | the people nsubj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | |||
| 3 | prostrate | past | the high chiefs | chiefs = chief | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beat | drums | nom beating «act transitive»: of=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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