Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 4
The Polynesian ear is as nice in marking the slightest variations in vowel sound as it is dull in distinguishing consonants.
Who acts: Polynesian ear, ear · What happens: be, mark · To what, where: slightest variations, vowel sound, distinguishing consonants
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 (Polynesian ear, ear), 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 ear | det |
| 2 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ear | amod |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nice | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 nice | case |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 marking | mark |
| 8 | marking | mark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 nice | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 variations | det |
| 10 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 variations | amod |
| 11 | variations | variation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 marking | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 sound | case |
| 13 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sound | compound |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marking | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 dull | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dull | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 dull | cop |
| 18 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 marking | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 consonants | case |
| 20 | distinguishing | distinguishing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 consonants | amod |
| 21 | consonants | consonant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dull | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 nice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Polynesian ear | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mark | gerund | the Polynesian ear not said here | the slightest variations | vowel sound | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent variation=Theme in sound=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | ear | distinguishing consonants | dull 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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