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title: “A few words should be added on the peculiar genius and structure of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “A few words should be added on the peculiar genius and structure of the Polynesian language in general and of the Hawaiian dialect in particular. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 1

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“A few words should be added on the peculiar genius and structure of the Polynesian language in general and of the Hawaiian dialect in particular.

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**What happens:** add · **To what, where:** few words, peculiar genius

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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: 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:pg66516:31:1
# text = “A few words should be added on the peculiar genius and structure of the Polynesian language in general and of the Hawaiian dialect in particular.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should · passive |  | a few words |  | the peculiar genius and structure of the Polynesian language in general and the Hawaiian dialect in particular |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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