Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 21
However it has been and is successfully used to express the abstractions of mathematics, of English law, and of theology.”
What happens: use, express, abstract · To what, where: style, abstractions, mathematics
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 8 used | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 used | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 used | aux:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 used | cc |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 used | aux:pass |
| 7 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 8 used | advmod |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 express | mark |
| 10 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 used | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 abstractions | det |
| 12 | abstractions | abstraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 express | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mathematics | case |
| 14 | mathematics | mathematics | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abstractions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 law | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 law | case |
| 17 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 law | compound |
| 18 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abstractions | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 theology | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 theology | cc |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 theology | case |
| 22 | theology | theology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 theology | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 theology | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · perfect · passive | style | theology parataxis; however, successfully property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | express | to-infinitive | the abstractions of mathematics and English law | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abstraction=Theme | |||||
| 3 | abstract | mathematics | nom abstraction «cognition 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 Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (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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