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title: The vocabulary of the Hawaiian is probably richer than that of most… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The vocabulary of the Hawaiian is probably richer than that of most other Polynesian tongues. Who acts: vocabulary. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 5

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The vocabulary of the Hawaiian is probably richer than that of most other Polynesian tongues.

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**Who acts:** vocabulary · **What happens:** be

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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 (vocabulary), 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:pg66516:31:5
# text = The vocabulary of the Hawaiian is probably richer than that of most other Polynesian tongues.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the vocabulary of the Hawaiian |  |  |  |  | than that of most other Polynesian tongues; probably, rich *property* | 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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