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title: Then followed such a scene of unbridled revelry as could occur only… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Then followed such a scene of unbridled revelry as could occur only in a land given up to physical pleasures and passions. Who acts: scene. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 68

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Then followed such a scene of unbridled revelry as could occur only in a land given up to physical pleasures and passions.

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**Who acts:** scene · **What happens:** follow, unbridl, occur, give up · **To what, where:** scene, land, physical pleasures

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Sons of Kii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scene), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:7:68
# text = Then followed such a scene of unbridled revelry as could occur only in a land given up to physical pleasures and passions.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	unbridled	unbridl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	revelry	revelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	passions	passion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past |  | such scene of unbridled revelry |  |  | then |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme |
| 2 | **unbridl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **occur** | could | such scene of unbridled revelry *not said here* | a land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give up** | participle |  | a land *not said here* | physical pleasures and passions |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to pleasure=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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