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title: It is the law of all Polynesian languages that every word and syllab… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the law of all Polynesian languages that every word and syllable must end in a vowel, so that no two consonants are ever heard without a vowel sound between them. Who acts: word. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its depend
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 2

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It is the law of all Polynesian languages that every word and syllable must end in a vowel, so that no two consonants are ever heard without a vowel sound between them.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** be, end, hear · **To what, where:** law, Polynesian languages, vowel, two consonants

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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: who acts (word), 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:pg66516:31:2
# text = It is the law of all Polynesian languages that every word and syllable must end in a vowel, so that no two consonants are ever heard without a vowel sound between them.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
27	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 law |  |  |  | of all Polynesian languages | tree rules |
| 2 | **end** | must | every word and syllable | all Polynesian languages |  | a vowel |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hear** | present · passive |  | no two consonants |  |  | ever | without a vowel sound between words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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