Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 8
Not only are names wanting for the more general abstractions, such as space, nature, fate, etc., but there are very few generic terms.
Who acts: names, few generic terms · What happens: not be, want, be · To what, where: names
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 (names, few generic terms), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 names | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 names | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | cop |
| 4 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | wanting | want | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 names | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 abstractions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 abstractions | det |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 abstractions | amod |
| 9 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 abstractions | amod |
| 10 | abstractions | abstraction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wanting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 space | punct |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 space | case |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 such | fixed |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abstractions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 nature | punct |
| 16 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 space | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fate | punct |
| 18 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 space | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 etc. | punct |
| 20 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 18 fate | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 are | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 are | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 are | expl |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 names | conj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 few | advmod |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 terms | amod |
| 27 | generic | generic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 terms | amod |
| 28 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 are | nsubj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 names | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | names | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | want | gerund | names not said here | for the more general abstractions such space and nature and fate and etc. | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | does | present | few generic terms | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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