Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 40
It is now believed that the Polynesians came to the island groups from the neighbourhood of the straits of Sunda, where they had their home for a long time.
Who acts: Polynesians · What happens: believe, come, have · To what, where: study, island groups, home · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Polynesians), 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 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | aux:pass |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 believed | advmod |
| 4 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Polynesians | det |
| 7 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believed | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 groups | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 groups | det |
| 11 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 groups | compound |
| 12 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 neighbourhood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neighbourhood | det |
| 15 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 groups | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 straits | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 straits | det |
| 18 | straits | strait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 neighbourhood | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Sunda | case |
| 20 | Sunda | Sunda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 straits | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 had | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Sunda | acl:relcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 home | nmod:poss |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 time | amod |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · passive | study | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the Polynesians | the island groups from the neighbourhood of the straits of Sunda | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to group=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Polynesians = polynesian | Polynesians's home | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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