Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 50
{ a is sounded as in father { e ,, ,, ,, ,, they { i ,, ,, ,, ,, marine { o ,, ,, ,, ,, note Hawaiian vowels { u ,, ,, ,, ,, rule or as oo in moon { ai when sounded as a diphthong resembles English { ay { au when sounded as a diphthong resembles ou as { in loud
Who acts: quotations, rule, English · What happens: sound, {, note, resemble · To what, where: i, Hawaiian vowels, ou
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 (quotations, rule, English), 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 | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sounded | det |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | aux:pass |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | obl |
| 8 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 9 e | punct |
| 9 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
| 10 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 11 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 15 { | punct |
| 12 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 15 { | punct |
| 13 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 15 { | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 { | nsubj |
| 15 | { | { | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sounded | parataxis |
| 16 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 { | obj |
| 17 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 21 marine | punct |
| 18 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 21 marine | punct |
| 19 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 21 marine | punct |
| 20 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 21 marine | punct |
| 21 | marine | marine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 { | conj |
| 22 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 28 note | punct |
| 23 | o | o | INTJ | _ | 28 note | discourse |
| 24 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 23 o | punct |
| 25 | ,, | ,, | INTJ | _ | 28 note | discourse |
| 26 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 25 ,, | punct |
| 27 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 25 ,, | punct |
| 28 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 marine | conj |
| 29 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 vowels | amod |
| 30 | vowels | vowel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 note | obj |
| 31 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 32 u | punct |
| 32 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 note | obl |
| 33 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 37 rule | punct |
| 34 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 37 rule | punct |
| 35 | ,, | ,, | PUNCT | _ | 37 rule | punct |
| 36 | ,, | ,, | CCONJ | _ | 37 rule | cc |
| 37 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 resembles | nsubj |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 oo | cc |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 oo | case |
| 40 | oo | oo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rule | conj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 moon | case |
| 42 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 oo | nmod |
| 43 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 44 ai | punct |
| 44 | ai | ai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rule | parataxis |
| 45 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 sounded | advmod |
| 46 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 rule | acl |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 diphthong | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 diphthong | det |
| 49 | diphthong | diphthong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sounded | obl |
| 50 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 note | parataxis |
| 51 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 resembles | nsubj |
| 52 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 53 ay | punct |
| 53 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 resembles | nsubj |
| 54 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 55 au | punct |
| 55 | au | au | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 ay | conj |
| 56 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 57 sounded | advmod |
| 57 | sounded | sound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 ay | acl |
| 58 | as | as | ADP | _ | 60 diphthong | case |
| 59 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 diphthong | det |
| 60 | diphthong | diphthong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 sounded | obl |
| 61 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 resembles | conj |
| 62 | ou | ou | X | Foreign=Yes | 61 resembles | obj |
| 63 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 66 loud | mark |
| 64 | { | { | PUNCT | _ | 63 as | punct |
| 65 | in | in | ADP | _ | 66 loud | case |
| 66 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 resembles | advcl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present · passive | as father and e | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» | |||||
| 2 | { | present | quotations = quotation | i | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | note | infinitive | quotations = quotation not said here | Hawaiian vowels | u obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vowel=Topic | |||
| 4 | sound | participle | as a diphthong | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | resemble | present | rule ai or oo in moon | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sound | participle | as a diphthong | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | resemble | present | English | ou | ay and au nsubj | 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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