Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 68
Then followed such a scene of unbridled revelry as could occur only in a land given up to physical pleasures and passions.
Who acts: scene · What happens: follow, unbridl, occur, give up · To what, where: scene, land, physical pleasures
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 (scene), 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 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 scene | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 scene | det |
| 5 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 revelry | case |
| 7 | unbridled | unbridl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 revelry | amod |
| 8 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scene | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 occur | mark |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 occur | aux |
| 11 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 scene | acl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 land | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occur | obj |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 land | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 given | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 pleasures | case |
| 19 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pleasures | amod |
| 20 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 given | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 passions | cc |
| 22 | passions | passion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pleasures | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | such scene of unbridled revelry | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | ||||
| 2 | unbridl | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | occur | could | such scene of unbridled revelry not said here | a land | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give up | participle | a land not said here | physical pleasures and passions | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to pleasure=Recipient |
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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