Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 26
There is abundance of proof of a common origin, but not sufficient to found any claim for Hawaiian parentage.
Who acts: abundance · What happens: be, found, proof · To what, where: claim, common origin
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 (abundance), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 proof | case |
| 5 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abundance | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 origin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 origin | det |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 origin | amod |
| 9 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proof | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sufficient | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sufficient | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sufficient | advmod |
| 13 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 found | mark |
| 15 | found | found | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sufficient | csubj |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 claim | det |
| 17 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 parentage | case |
| 19 | Hawaiian | hawaiian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parentage | amod |
| 20 | parentage | parentage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 claim | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | abundance of proof of a common origin | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | found | to-infinitive | any claim | for Hawaiian parentage | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Patient | ||||
| 3 | proof | a common origin | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=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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