Hawaiian Historical Legends, Opening, sentence 22
This is a fairly good rule for the pronunciation of all Polynesian words.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, pronounce · To what, where: good rule, Polynesian words
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 rule | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rule | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rule | det |
| 4 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 5 good | advmod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rule | amod |
| 6 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 pronunciation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pronunciation | det |
| 9 | pronunciation | pronunciation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rule | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 words | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 words | det |
| 12 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pronunciation | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a good rule | for the pronunciation of all Polynesian words | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pronounce | all Polynesian words | nom pronunciation «communication transitive»: of=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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