Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 24

Some writers have thought that Samoa might be the center of dispersion to the other Pacific islands, but the Samoan dialect is very corrupt, its legends are fragmentary, and its history of sea rovers seems to lack a sufficient similarity of names with the migrators from the original home to allow this supposition to have very great weight.

Who acts: Samoa, Samoan dialect, legends, history · What happens: think, be, seem, lack, allow, have · To what, where: writers, center, sufficient similarity, supposition, great weight

This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Samoa, Samoan dialect, legends, history), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

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The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 writers	det
2	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thought	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 center	mark
6	Samoa	Samoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 center	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 center	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 center	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 center	det
10	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 dispersion	case
12	dispersion	dispersion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 center	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 islands	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 islands	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 islands	amod
16	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 islands	compound
17	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 center	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 corrupt	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 corrupt	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dialect	det
21	Samoan	samoan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dialect	amod
22	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 corrupt	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 corrupt	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 corrupt	advmod
25	corrupt	corrupt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fragmentary	punct
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 legends	nmod:poss
28	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fragmentary	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fragmentary	cop
30	fragmentary	fragmentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 corrupt	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seems	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seems	cc
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 history	nmod:poss
34	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 seems	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 rovers	case
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rovers	compound
37	rovers	rover	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 history	nmod
38	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 lack	mark
40	lack	lack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 seems	xcomp
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 similarity	det
42	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 similarity	amod
43	similarity	similarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 lack	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 names	case
45	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 similarity	nmod
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 migrators	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 migrators	det
48	migrators	migrator	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 names	nmod
49	from	from	ADP	_	52 home	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 home	det
51	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 home	amod
52	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 migrators	nmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 allow	mark
54	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 lack	advcl
55	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	56 supposition	det
56	supposition	supposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 allow	obj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 have	mark
58	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 supposition	acl
59	very	very	ADV	_	60 great	advmod
60	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 weight	amod
61	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 have	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect · passive		some writers		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	might	Samoa	the center	of dispersion; to the other Pacific islands	tree rules
3	is	present	the Samoan dialect		corrupt property	tree rules
4	is	present	dispersion's legends		fragmentary property	tree rules
5	seem	present	dispersion's history of sea rovers			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	lack	to-infinitive	dispersion's history of sea rovers not said here	a sufficient similarity of names with the migrators from the original home		tree rules
7	allow	to-infinitive	dispersion's history of sea rovers not said here	this supposition		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supposition=Beneficiary
8	have	to-infinitive	dispersion's history of sea rovers not said here	great weight		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

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.

Text: «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 24