Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 22
“The Hawaiian is but a dialect of the great Polynesian language, which is spoken with extraordinary uniformity over all the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii.
What happens: speak · To what, where: great Polynesian language, numerous islands, Hawaiian · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 3 Hawaiian | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hawaiian | det |
| 3 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 but | cop |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 Hawaiian | flat |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dialect | det |
| 7 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 but | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 language | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 language | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 language | amod |
| 11 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 language | amod |
| 12 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dialect | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoken | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 spoken | aux:pass |
| 16 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 language | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 uniformity | case |
| 18 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 uniformity | amod |
| 19 | uniformity | uniformity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoken | obl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 islands | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 islands | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 islands | det |
| 23 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 islands | amod |
| 24 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoken | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ocean | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Ocean | det |
| 27 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ocean | compound |
| 28 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 islands | nmod |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 31 Zealand | case |
| 30 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Zealand | flat |
| 31 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ocean | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Hawaii | cc |
| 33 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ocean | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hawaiian | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present · passive | the great Polynesian language | all numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii | with extraordinary uniformity | 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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