Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 20
In reading Hawaiian words do not end a syllable with a consonant, and pronounce all vowels as if they were Italian or French.
Who acts: vowels · What happens: read, not end, pronounce, be · To what, where: Hawaiian words, syllable, vowels
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vowels), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 reading | mark |
| 2 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 end | advcl |
| 3 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reading | obj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 end | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 end | advmod |
| 7 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 syllable | det |
| 9 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 consonant | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 consonant | det |
| 12 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pronounce | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pronounce | cc |
| 15 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 end | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 vowels | det |
| 17 | vowels | vowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pronounce | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 Italian | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 Italian | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Italian | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Italian | cop |
| 22 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pronounce | advcl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 French | cc |
| 24 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Italian | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | Hawaiian words | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not end | present · do-support | a syllable | with a consonant | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector syllable=Eventuality with consonant=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | pronounce | infinitive | all vowels | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | vowels = vowel | italian property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | vowels = vowel not said here | tree rules |
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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