Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 18
The above-mentioned characteristics make it a pictorial and expressive language.
Who acts: mentioned characteristics · What happens: mention, make · To what, where: style
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mentioned characteristics), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 characteristics | det |
| 2 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mentioned | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 above | punct |
| 4 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 characteristics | amod |
| 5 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pictorial | det |
| 9 | pictorial | pictorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 language | cc |
| 11 | expressive | expressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 language | amod |
| 12 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pictorial | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | the mentioned characteristics | style | a pictorial and expressive language xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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