Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 41
In Hawaiian every syllable ends in a vowel and no syllable can have more than three letters, generally not more than two and a large number of syllables consist of single letters—vowels.
Who acts: syllable, two · What happens: end, have, consist · To what, where: Hawaiian, three letters
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, two), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 Hawaiian | case |
| 2 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obl |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 syllable | det |
| 4 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | nsubj |
| 5 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 vowel | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 vowel | det |
| 8 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ends | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 syllable | det |
| 11 | syllable | syllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ends | conj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 16 three | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 more | fixed |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 letters | nummod |
| 17 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 two | punct |
| 19 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 23 two | advmod |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 two | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 23 two | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 more | fixed |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 consist | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 number | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 number | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 number | amod |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 two | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 syllables | case |
| 29 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 number | nmod |
| 30 | consist | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ends | parataxis |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 letters | case |
| 32 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 letters | amod |
| 33 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 consist | obl |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 vowels | punct |
| 35 | vowels | vowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 letters | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | every syllable | Hawaiian | in a vowel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | have | can | no syllable | three letters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | consist | present | two and a large number of syllables | of single letters and vowels | 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 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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