Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 6
Its child-like and primitive character is shown by the absence of abstract words and general terms.
Who acts: absence · What happens: show, absent · To what, where: like character, abstract words
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 (absence), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 character | nmod:poss |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 child | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 character | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 primitive | cc |
| 6 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 like | conj |
| 7 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shown | aux:pass |
| 9 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 absence | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 absence | det |
| 12 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shown | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | abstract | abstract | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 absence | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 terms | cc |
| 17 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 terms | amod |
| 18 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 words | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | the absence of abstract words and general terms | vocabulary's like character | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | absent | abstract words and general terms | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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