Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 39
“A syllable in Hawaiian may consist of a single vowel, or a consonant united with a vowel or at most of a consonant and two vowels, never of more than one consonant.
Who acts: syllable · What happens: consist, unite · To what, where: consonant
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» 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 (syllable), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 consist | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 syllable | det |
| 3 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consist | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Hawaiian | case |
| 5 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 syllable | nmod |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 consist | aux |
| 7 | consist | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vowel | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vowel | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vowel | amod |
| 11 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consist | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 consonant | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 consonant | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 consonant | det |
| 15 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consist | obl |
| 16 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 consonant | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 vowel | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 vowel | det |
| 19 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 united | obl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 consonant | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 most | case |
| 22 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 consonant | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 consonant | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 consonant | det |
| 25 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 most | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 vowels | cc |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 vowels | nummod |
| 28 | vowels | vowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 consonant | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 consonant | punct |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 consonant | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 consonant | case |
| 32 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 34 one | advmod |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 more | fixed |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 consonant | nummod |
| 35 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vowel | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist in a quote | may | a syllable in Hawaiian | a consonant | of a single vowel | tree rules | |||
| 2 | unite in a quote | participle | a consonant not said here | with a vowel or one consonant | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with vowel=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 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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