Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Snow-goddess, sentence 34
A large retinue of canoes attended him, filled with musicians and singers and his intimate companions.
Who acts: large retinue · What happens: attend, fill · To what, where: Kauai
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Snow-goddess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large retinue), 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 retinue | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 retinue | amod |
| 3 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 canoes | case |
| 5 | canoes | canoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retinue | nmod |
| 6 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 attended | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 attended | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 musicians | case |
| 11 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 filled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 singers | cc |
| 13 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 musicians | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 companions | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 companions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | intimate | intimate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 companions | amod |
| 17 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 musicians | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | past | a large retinue of canoes | Kauai | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | a large retinue of canoes not said here | with musicians and singers and Kauai's intimate companions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with musician=Instrument |
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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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