Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Sons of Kii, sentence 160
Holes were bored through these boards with sharp-pointed bones or shells, and they were strongly tied to the runners.
What happens: bore, tie · To what, where: Holes, boards
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: 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 | Holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bored | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bored | aux:pass |
| 3 | bored | bore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 boards | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 boards | det |
| 6 | boards | board | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bored | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bones | case |
| 8 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bones | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sharp | punct |
| 10 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bones | amod |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 boards | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 shells | cc |
| 13 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bones | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tied | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tied | aux:pass |
| 18 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 19 tied | advmod |
| 19 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bored | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 runners | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 runners | det |
| 22 | runners | runner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tied | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | past · passive | Holes | this boards with sharp pointed bones or shells | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tie | past · passive | Holes = hole | to the runners; strongly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to runner=Co-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 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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