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title: Its words are pictures rather than colorless and abstract symbols of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Its words are pictures rather than colorless and abstract symbols of ideas, and are redolent of the mountain, the forest and the surf. Who acts: words, style. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 20

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Its words are pictures rather than colorless and abstract symbols of ideas, and are redolent of the mountain, the forest and the surf.

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**Who acts:** words, style · **What happens:** be, word · **To what, where:** pictures

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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 (words, style), 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:pg66516:31:20
# text = Its words are pictures rather than colorless and abstract symbols of ideas, and are redolent of the mountain, the forest and the surf.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	7	cc	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	colorless	colorless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	abstract	abstract	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	redolent	redolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	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 | style's words | pictures and abstract symbols of ideas |  |  |  | abstract symbols of ideas *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | style's words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the mountain; the forest and the surf *conj*; redolent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  | style |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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