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title: S. Percy Smith, Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand, traces th… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: S. Percy Smith, Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand, traces the Polynesians from Aryan connection in Asia Minor and Western Europe to India, Malayasia and thence to the scattered islands of the Pacific. Who acts: S.. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Legendary Ho
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Legendary Home of the Polynesians, sentence 50

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S. Percy Smith, Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand, traces the Polynesians from Aryan connection in Asia Minor and Western Europe to India, Malayasia and thence to the scattered islands of the Pacific.

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**Who acts:** S. · **What happens:** trace · **To what, where:** Polynesians, India, Aryan connection

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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 (S.), 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:pg66357:6:50
# text = S. Percy Smith, Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand, traces the Polynesians from Aryan connection in Asia Minor and Western Europe to India, Malayasia and thence to the scattered islands of the Pacific.
1	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	Percy	Percy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	traces	trace	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Polynesians	Polynesian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	compound	_	_
18	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Minor	Minor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Malayasia	Malayasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	34	amod	_	_
34	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | present | S. and Minister of Native Affairs in New Zealand | the Polynesians | India and Malayasia and the scattered islands of the Pacific | Aryan connection in Asia and Western Europe |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent polynesian=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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