Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 4

The Tahitian, Samoan, New Zealander, and Hawaiian, though thousands of miles apart, are members of one family, and require but a short period to acquire the faculty of a free exchange of ideas.

Who acts: thousands, Tahitian · What happens: be, require, acquire, exchange · To what, where: members, faculty, ideas

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 (thousands, Tahitian), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tahitian	det
2	Tahitian	Tahitian	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 require	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Samoan	punct
4	Samoan	Samoan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tahitian	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Zealander	punct
6	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Zealander	amod
7	Zealander	Zealander	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tahitian	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Hawaiian	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Hawaiian	cc
10	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tahitian	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 members	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 members	mark
13	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 members	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 miles	case
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thousands	nmod
16	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 miles	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thousands	punct
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 members	cop
19	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Tahitian	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 family	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 family	nummod
22	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 members	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 require	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 require	cc
25	require	require	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 period	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 period	det
28	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 period	amod
29	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 require	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 acquire	mark
31	acquire	acquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 require	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 faculty	det
33	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 acquire	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 exchange	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 exchange	det
36	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 exchange	amod
37	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 faculty	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 ideas	case
39	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 exchange	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 require	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	thousands of miles	members	of one family	tree rules
2	require	infinitive	the Tahitian and Samoan and New Zealander and Hawaiian and members		a short period conj	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	acquire	to-infinitive	the Tahitian and Samoan and New Zealander and Hawaiian and members not said here	the faculty of a free exchange of ideas		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset faculty=Theme
4	exchange			ideas		nom exchange «phenomenon 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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🌲 Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 4

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Pragmatics

Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 4