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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 39

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“A syllable in Hawaiian may consist of a single vowel, or a consonant united with a vowel or at most of a consonant and two vowels, never of more than one consonant.

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**Who acts:** syllable · **What happens:** consist, unite · **To what, where:** consonant

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (syllable), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:1:39
# text = “A syllable in Hawaiian may consist of a single vowel, or a consonant united with a vowel or at most of a consonant and two vowels, never of more than one consonant.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	consist	consist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	united	unite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	vowels	vowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	34	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	consonant	consonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** *in a quote* | may | a syllable in Hawaiian | a consonant |  |  |  | of a single vowel | tree rules |
| 2 | **unite** *in a quote* | participle |  | a consonant *not said here* |  |  |  | with a vowel or one consonant | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with vowel=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**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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