Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 3
Most of the radical words are dissyllables, and the accent is generally on the penult.
Who acts: Most, accent · What happens: be · To what, where: dissyllables, penult
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 (Most, accent), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 dissyllables | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | radical | radical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dissyllables | cop |
| 7 | dissyllables | dissyllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 penult | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 penult | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 accent | det |
| 11 | accent | accent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 penult | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 penult | cop |
| 13 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 16 penult | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 penult | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 penult | det |
| 16 | penult | penult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dissyllables | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dissyllables | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Most of the radical words | dissyllables and the penult | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the accent | the penult | generally property | 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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