Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 25
It is also interesting to note that the Hawaiian Islands do not have a good foundation for any claim to be the original centre of dispersion, although many of the most ancient legends of Hawaii and of New Zealand are the same.
Who acts: Hawaiian Islands, many · What happens: be, note, not have · To what, where: good foundation, original centre
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 (Hawaiian Islands, many), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 interesting | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 interesting | cop |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 interesting | advmod |
| 4 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 note | mark |
| 6 | note | note | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 interesting | csubj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 have | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Islands | det |
| 9 | Hawaiian | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Islands | compound |
| 10 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 have | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 note | ccomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 foundation | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 foundation | amod |
| 16 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 claim | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 claim | det |
| 19 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foundation | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 centre | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 centre | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 centre | det |
| 23 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 centre | amod |
| 24 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 claim | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dispersion | case |
| 26 | dispersion | dispersion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 centre | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 same | punct |
| 28 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 43 same | mark |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 same | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 legends | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 legends | det |
| 32 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 33 ancient | advmod |
| 33 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 legends | amod |
| 34 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 many | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Hawaii | case |
| 36 | Hawaii | Hawaii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 legends | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 Zealand | cc |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Zealand | case |
| 39 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Zealand | flat |
| 40 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Hawaii | conj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 same | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 same | det |
| 43 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 have | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 interesting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | interesting property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | note | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | not have | present · do-support | the Hawaiian Islands | a good foundation | for any claim | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the original centre | of dispersion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | many of the ancient legends of Hawaii and New Zealand | same property | tree rules |
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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