--- title: So in the Hawaiian everything that relates to their every-day life o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: So in the Hawaiian everything that relates to their every-day life or to the natural objects with which they are conversant is expressed with a vivacity, a minuteness and nicety of coloring which cannot be reproduced in a foreign tongue. Who acts: natural objects, nicety. A sentence of «Hawaiian Leg --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/31/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Polynesian Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/31/) / 11 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 11 So in the Hawaiian everything that relates to their every-day life or to the natural objects with which they are conversant is expressed with a vivacity, a minuteness and nicety of coloring which cannot be reproduced in a foreign tongue. **Who acts:** natural objects, nicety · **What happens:** relate, be, express, color, not reproduce · **To what, where:** everything, vivacity, foreign tongue 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: who acts (natural objects, nicety), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:31:11 # text = So in the Hawaiian everything that relates to their every-day life or to the natural objects with which they are conversant is expressed with a vivacity, a minuteness and nicety of coloring which cannot be reproduced in a foreign tongue. 1 So so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 Hawaiian hawaiian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 relates relate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 10 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 objects object NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 conversant conversant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 expressed express VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 vivacity vivacity NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 minuteness minuteness NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 nicety nicety NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 coloring color VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 reproduced reproduce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **relate** | present | | | | | | to distinctions's day life or the natural objects | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to life=Co-Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the natural objects | | | | | with conversant; distinctions *= distinction* *nsubj* | tree rules | | 3 | **express** | present · passive | | everything | | | | with a vivacity and a minuteness and nicety | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **color** | gerund | nicety *not said here* | | | | | | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **reproduce** | can · passive | | a vivacity and a minuteness and nicety | | a foreign tongue | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/31/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/31/12/) - ↑ back to [Polynesian Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/31/)