Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 20
Its words are pictures rather than colorless and abstract symbols of ideas, and are redolent of the mountain, the forest and the surf.
Who acts: words, style · What happens: be, word · To what, where: pictures
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 (words, style), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pictures | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pictures | cop |
| 4 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 7 colorless | cc |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 rather | fixed |
| 7 | colorless | colorless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pictures | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 symbols | cc |
| 9 | abstract | abstract | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 symbols | amod |
| 10 | symbols | symbol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pictures | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ideas | case |
| 12 | ideas | idea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 symbols | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 redolent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 redolent | cc |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 redolent | cop |
| 16 | redolent | redolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pictures | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mountain | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 redolent | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 forest | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 redolent | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 surf | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 surf | det |
| 25 | surf | surf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 forest | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pictures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | style's words | pictures and abstract symbols of ideas | abstract symbols of ideas conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | style's words not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | of the mountain; the forest and the surf conj; redolent property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | word | style | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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