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title: The Hawaiian dialect is peculiarly interesting to the philologist fr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hawaiian dialect is peculiarly interesting to the philologist from its isolated position, being the most remote of the family from its primeval seat in Southeastern Asia, and leading the van with the Malagasy in the rear. Who acts: Hawaiian dialect. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 24

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The Hawaiian dialect is peculiarly interesting to the philologist from its isolated position, being the most remote of the family from its primeval seat in Southeastern Asia, and leading the van with the Malagasy in the rear.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian dialect · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** remote, van, rear

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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 (Hawaiian dialect), 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:pg66516:31:24
# text = The Hawaiian dialect is peculiarly interesting to the philologist from its isolated position, being the most remote of the family from its primeval seat in Southeastern Asia, and leading the van with the Malagasy in the rear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	peculiarly	peculiarly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	philologist	philologist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	isolated	isolated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	primeval	primeval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Southeastern	Southeastern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Malagasy	Malagasy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Hawaiian dialect |  |  |  |  | to the philologist from dialect's isolated position and the remote; interesting, peculiarly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund | the Hawaiian dialect *not said here* | the remote |  |  |  | of the family from dialect's primeval seat in Southeastern Asia | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | the Hawaiian dialect *not said here* | the van |  | the rear |  | with the Malagasy | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent van=Theme in rear=Destination |

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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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