Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 27
From this table he inferred that the Polynesian languages afford many analogies with the Malay while they present no point of contact with the American.”
Who acts: Reinhold, Malay · What happens: infer, afford, present, point · To what, where: table, Polynesian languages, point, contact
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: who acts (Reinhold, Malay), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 table | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 table | det |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inferred | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 inferred | nsubj |
| 5 | inferred | infer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 afford | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 languages | det |
| 8 | Polynesian | polynesian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 languages | amod |
| 9 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 afford | obj |
| 10 | afford | afford | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 inferred | advcl |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 analogies | amod |
| 12 | analogies | analogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 afford | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Malay | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Malay | det |
| 15 | Malay | Malay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 analogies | nmod |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 present | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 present | nsubj |
| 18 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inferred | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 point | det |
| 20 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 present | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 contact | case |
| 22 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 point | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 American | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 American | det |
| 25 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 present | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inferred | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 inferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | infer | past | Reinhold | this table | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | afford | infinitive | Reinhold not said here | the Polynesian languages | many analogies obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | present | present | Malay | no point of contact | with the American | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent point=Recipient with american=Theme | |||
| 4 | point | contact | nom point «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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