Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Law of the Splintered Paddle, sentence 34
The bones of my choice companions will be used for fish hooks.
What happens: use · To what, where: bones
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Law of the Splintered Paddle. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 companions | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 companions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 companions | compound |
| 6 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bones | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hooks | case |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hooks | compound |
| 12 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 used | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | future · passive | the bones of my choice companions | for fish hooks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for hook=Eventuality |
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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