Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 92
The music for the rhythmic motion was furnished by rude drums, upon which musicians beat time.
Who acts: musicians · What happens: furnish, beat · To what, where: music
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 (musicians), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 motion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 motion | det |
| 5 | rhythmic | rhythmic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 motion | amod |
| 6 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 music | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 furnished | aux:pass |
| 8 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 drums | case |
| 10 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drums | amod |
| 11 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 furnished | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beat | punct |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 beat | obl |
| 15 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 beat | nsubj |
| 16 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 furnished | parataxis |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | past · passive | the music for the rhythmic motion | by rude drums | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | beat | present | musicians | time | which obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location |
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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