Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 39
It was his great delight to gather all the families together and have feasts and games.
Who acts: leaf · What happens: be, gather, have · To what, where: great delight, families, feasts
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 delight | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delight | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 delight | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 delight | amod |
| 5 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 gather | mark |
| 7 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 delight | acl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 families | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 families | det |
| 10 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gather | obj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 gather | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 gather | conj |
| 14 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 games | cc |
| 16 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feasts | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | leaf | AHI's great delight | AHI nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | all families | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | feasts and games | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
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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