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title: Folklore is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resul… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: Folklore is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resulting in nature myths and sometimes it is an outgrowth of sympathy with history. Who acts: Folklore, outgrowth. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless, with its dependency tree and the
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, Moi-keha, the Restless, sentence 1

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Folklore is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resulting in nature myths and sometimes it is an outgrowth of sympathy with history.

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**Who acts:** Folklore, outgrowth · **What happens:** be, result · **To what, where:** outgrowth, nature myths

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Moi-keha, the Restless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folklore, outgrowth), 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:pg66357:9:1
# text = Folklore is sometimes the outgrowth of a sympathy with nature, resulting in nature myths and sometimes it is an outgrowth of sympathy with history.
1	Folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outgrowth	outgrowth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	outgrowth	outgrowth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Folklore | the outgrowth |  |  |  | of a sympathy with nature; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **result** | gerund | the outgrowth *not said here* |  |  | nature myths and a outgrowth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in myth=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Folklore | a outgrowth |  |  |  | of sympathy with history; sometimes *property* | tree rules |

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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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