Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 50
S. Percy Smith, Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand, traces the Polynesians from Aryan connection in Asia Minor and Western Europe to India, Malayasia and thence to the scattered islands of the Pacific.
Who acts: S. · What happens: trace · To what, where: Polynesians, India, Aryan connection
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 (S.), 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 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 traces | nsubj |
| 2 | Percy | Percy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | flat |
| 3 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Minister | punct |
| 5 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Affairs | case |
| 7 | Native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Affairs | amod |
| 8 | Affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Minister | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Zealand | case |
| 10 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Zealand | flat |
| 11 | Zealand | Zealand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Affairs | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 S. | punct |
| 13 | traces | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Polynesians | det |
| 15 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 traces | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 connection | case |
| 17 | Aryan | Aryan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 connection | compound |
| 18 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 traces | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Asia | case |
| 20 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 connection | nmod |
| 21 | Minor | Minor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Asia | flat |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Europe | cc |
| 23 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Europe | amod |
| 24 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Asia | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 India | case |
| 26 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 traces | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Malayasia | punct |
| 28 | Malayasia | Malayasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 India | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 islands | cc |
| 30 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 34 islands | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 islands | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 islands | det |
| 33 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 34 islands | amod |
| 34 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 India | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Pacific | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Pacific | det |
| 37 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 islands | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 traces | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trace | present | S. and Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand | the Polynesians | India and Malayasia and the scattered islands of the Pacific | Aryan connection in Asia and Western Europe | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polynesian=Theme |
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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