---
title: There is abundance of proof of a common origin, but not sufficient t… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: There is abundance of proof of a common origin, but not sufficient to found any claim for Hawaiian parentage. Who acts: abundance. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [Legendary Home of the Polynesians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/) / 26

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 26

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There is abundance of proof of a common origin, but not sufficient to found any claim for Hawaiian parentage.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** abundance · **What happens:** be, found, proof · **To what, where:** claim, common origin

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (abundance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:6:26
# text = There is abundance of proof of a common origin, but not sufficient to found any claim for Hawaiian parentage.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	found	found	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	csubj	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Hawaiian	hawaiian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	parentage	parentage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | abundance of proof of a common origin |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **found** | to-infinitive |  | any claim |  |  |  | for Hawaiian parentage | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Patient |
| 3 | **proof** |  |  | a common origin |  |  |  |  | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/27/)
- ↑ back to [Legendary Home of the Polynesians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/6/)