Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 9
In attempting to trace the place of origin of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians it is absolutely necessary to take into account this phonetic difficulty.
Who acts: attempting · What happens: attempt, trace, be, take · To what, where: place, phonetic difficulty, account
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 (attempting), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 attempting | mark |
| 2 | attempting | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 necessary | csubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 trace | mark |
| 4 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 attempting | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trace | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 origin | case |
| 8 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Hawaiians | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hawaiians | det |
| 11 | Hawaiians | Hawaiian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 origin | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Polynesians | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Polynesians | amod |
| 14 | Polynesians | Polynesian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Hawaiians | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trace | obj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 necessary | cop |
| 17 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 18 necessary | advmod |
| 18 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 necessary | csubj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 account | case |
| 22 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obl |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 difficulty | det |
| 24 | phonetic | phonetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 difficulty | amod |
| 25 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | trace not said to happen | to-infinitive | the place of origin of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians | origin obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | attempting | absolutely, necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | this phonetic difficulty | account | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme into account=Destination |
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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