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title: Professor Alexander, in his “History of Hawaii,” thinks there is sca… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Professor Alexander, in his “History of Hawaii,” thinks there is scarcely sufficient foundation for the suggestion. Who acts: Alexander, sufficient foundation. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, First Foreigners, sentence 35

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Professor Alexander, in his “History of Hawaii,” thinks there is scarcely sufficient foundation for the suggestion.

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**Who acts:** Alexander, sufficient foundation · **What happens:** think, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, First Foreigners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alexander, sufficient foundation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:11:35
# text = Professor Alexander, in his “History of Hawaii,” thinks there is scarcely sufficient foundation for the suggestion.
1	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alexander  Professor |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | sufficient foundation for the suggestion |  |  | there |  | scarcely *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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