Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 21
The days and nights were filled with fishing and feasting, ruling and revelling.
What happens: fill, rule · To what, where: days
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 nights | cc |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 days | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 filled | aux:pass |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fishing | case |
| 8 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 feasting | cc |
| 10 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fishing | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ruling | punct |
| 12 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fishing | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 revelling | cc |
| 14 | revelling | revelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fishing | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the days and nights | with fishing and feasting and revelling | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with fishing=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | rule | gerund | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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