Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 5
One of these—Midway Island—is used as the United States mid-Pacific cable station.
What happens: use · To what, where: One
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 these | case |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Island | punct |
| 5 | Midway | Midway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Island | compound |
| 6 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 One | appos |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 States | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 States | det |
| 12 | United | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 States | amod |
| 13 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 used | obl |
| 14 | mid-Pacific | mid-pacific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 station | amod |
| 15 | cable | cable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 station | compound |
| 16 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | as the United States; mid-Pacific cable station parataxis | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» |
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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