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title: The accent of five-sixths of the words is on the penult, and a few p… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The accent of five-sixths of the words is on the penult, and a few proper names accent the first syllable. Who acts: accent. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 40

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The accent of five-sixths of the words is on the penult, and a few proper names accent the first syllable.

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**Who acts:** accent · **What happens:** be, accent · **To what, where:** penult, five sixths

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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 (accent), 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:pg66516:1:40
# text = The accent of five-sixths of the words is on the penult, and a few proper names accent the first syllable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	sixths	sixth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	penult	penult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	compound	_	_
20	accent	accent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the accent of five sixths of the words |  |  | the penult |  | a names accent  the first syllable *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accent** |  |  | five sixths of the words |  |  |  |  | nom accent «communication transitive»: of=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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