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title: “The Hawaiian is but a dialect of the great Polynesian language, whi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Hawaiian is but a dialect of the great Polynesian language, which is spoken with extraordinary uniformity over all the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with i
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 22

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“The Hawaiian is but a dialect of the great Polynesian language, which is spoken with extraordinary uniformity over all the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii.

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**What happens:** speak · **To what, where:** great Polynesian language, numerous islands, Hawaiian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg66516:31:22
# text = “The Hawaiian is but a dialect of the great Polynesian language, which is spoken with extraordinary uniformity over all the numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	flat	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	uniformity	uniformity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	between	between	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	_
31	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · passive |  | the great Polynesian language |  | all numerous islands of the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and Hawaii |  | with extraordinary uniformity | tree rules |

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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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