Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 24
The Hawaiian dialect is peculiarly interesting to the philologist from its isolated position, being the most remote of the family from its primeval seat in Southeastern Asia, and leading the van with the Malagasy in the rear.
Who acts: Hawaiian dialect · What happens: be, lead · To what, where: remote, van, rear
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 (Hawaiian dialect), 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 | 3 dialect | det |
| 2 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dialect | amod |
| 3 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interesting | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 interesting | cop |
| 5 | peculiarly | peculiarly | ADV | _ | 6 interesting | advmod |
| 6 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 philologist | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 philologist | det |
| 9 | philologist | philologist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 interesting | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 position | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 position | nmod:poss |
| 12 | isolated | isolated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 position | amod |
| 13 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 philologist | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remote | punct |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 remote | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 remote | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 remote | advmod |
| 18 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 philologist | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 family | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 family | det |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remote | nmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 seat | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 seat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | primeval | primeval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 seat | amod |
| 25 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 family | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 Asia | case |
| 27 | Southeastern | Southeastern | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Asia | compound |
| 28 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seat | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 leading | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 leading | cc |
| 31 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 interesting | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 van | det |
| 33 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leading | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 Malagasy | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Malagasy | det |
| 36 | Malagasy | Malagasy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 van | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 rear | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rear | det |
| 39 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 leading | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Hawaiian dialect | to the philologist from dialect's isolated position and the remote; interesting, peculiarly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | the Hawaiian dialect not said here | the remote | of the family from dialect's primeval seat in Southeastern Asia | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | the Hawaiian dialect not said here | the van | the rear | with the Malagasy | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent van=Theme in rear=Destination |
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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