Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 29
Then westward, and there were the rich tones of the beaten drum and the chant.
What happens: be, beat · To what, where: rich tones
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 westward | advmod |
| 2 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 9 tones | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 were | cc |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tones | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tones | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tones | amod |
| 9 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 drum | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 drum | det |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 drum | amod |
| 13 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tones | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chant | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chant | det |
| 16 | chant | chant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drum | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the rich tones | then | of the beaten drum and the chant; westward property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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