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title: In Hawaiian every syllable ends in a vowel and no syllable can have… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In Hawaiian every syllable ends in a vowel and no syllable can have more than three letters, generally not more than two and a large number of syllables consist of single letters—vowels. Who acts: syllable, two. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 41

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In Hawaiian every syllable ends in a vowel and no syllable can have more than three letters, generally not more than two and a large number of syllables consist of single letters—vowels.

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**Who acts:** syllable, two · **What happens:** end, have, consist · **To what, where:** Hawaiian, three letters

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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, two), 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:pg66516:1:41
# text = In Hawaiian every syllable ends in a vowel and no syllable can have more than three letters, generally not more than two and a large number of syllables consist of single letters—vowels.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	consist	consist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	vowels	vowel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | every syllable |  |  | Hawaiian |  | in a vowel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | can | no syllable | three letters |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 3 | **consist** | present | two and a large number of syllables |  |  |  |  | of single letters and vowels | tree rules |

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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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