Hawaiian Historical Legends, King Kahahana, About 1773, sentence 23
These were strung together and also used as necklaces.
What happens: string together, use · To what, where: These
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, King Kahahana, About 1773. 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 strung | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strung | aux:pass |
| 3 | strung | string | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 strung | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 used | cc |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 used | advmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 strung | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 necklaces | case |
| 9 | necklaces | necklace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | string together | past · passive | These | together property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | as necklaces | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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