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title: The consonants are h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. No distinction is made b… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The consonants are h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. No distinction is made between k and t or l and r, and w sounds like v between the penult and final syllable of a word. Who acts: consonants. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 51

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The consonants are h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. No distinction is made between k and t or l and r, and w sounds like v between the penult and final syllable of a word.

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**Who acts:** consonants · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** h k, w.

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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 (consonants), 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:pg66516:1:51
# text = The consonants are h, k, l, m, n, p, and w. No distinction is made between k and t or l and r, and w sounds like v between the penult and final syllable of a word.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	n	n	ADV	FW	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	w.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	l	l	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	w	W	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	parataxis	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	v	v	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	between	between	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	penult	penult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the consonants | h k and l and m and p |  |  |  | l *conj*; m *conj*; p *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | w. |  |  |  | between k and t or l and r; w sounds like v between the penult and final syllable of a word *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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