Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 38
Early writers on the origin of the Polynesians took it for granted that these ancestors were Malays.
Who acts: Early writers, ancestors · What happens: take, grant, be · To what, where: origin, Malays
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 (Early writers, ancestors), 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 | Early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 writers | amod |
| 2 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 origin | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 origin | det |
| 5 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 writers | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Polynesians | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Polynesians | det |
| 8 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 origin | nmod |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 granted | mark |
| 12 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 took | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 Malays | mark |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 ancestors | det |
| 15 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Malays | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Malays | cop |
| 17 | Malays | malay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 granted | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Early writers on the origin of the Polynesians | origin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grant | participle | Early writers on the origin of the Polynesians not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | this ancestors | Malays | 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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