Hawaiian Historical Legends, Paao From Samoa, sentence 201
Several weeks of weary warfare followed.
What happens: follow · To what, where: Several weeks
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Paao From Samoa. 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 weeks | amod |
| 2 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 warfare | case |
| 4 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warfare | amod |
| 5 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 weeks | nmod |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle · passive | Several weeks of weary warfare | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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