Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 33
The New Zealand dialect is the most primitive and entire in its forms.
Who acts: Zealand dialect, dialect · What happens: be, form · To what, where: forms
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 (Zealand dialect, 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 | 4 dialect | det |
| 2 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Zealand | flat |
| 3 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dialect | compound |
| 4 | dialect | dialect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 primitive | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 primitive | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 primitive | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 primitive | advmod |
| 8 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entire | cc |
| 10 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 primitive | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forms | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 forms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 entire | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 primitive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Zealand dialect | primitive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Zealand dialect not said here | dialect's forms | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | form | dialect | nom form «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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