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title: From this table he inferred that the Polynesian languages afford man… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: From this table he inferred that the Polynesian languages afford many analogies with the Malay while they present no point of contact with the American.” Who acts: Reinhold, Malay. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 27

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From this table he inferred that the Polynesian languages afford many analogies with the Malay while they present no point of contact with the American.”

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**Who acts:** Reinhold, Malay · **What happens:** infer, afford, present, point · **To what, where:** table, Polynesian languages, point, contact

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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 (Reinhold, Malay), 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:pg66516:31:27
# text = From this table he inferred that the Polynesian languages afford many analogies with the Malay while they present no point of contact with the American.”
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	inferred	infer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Polynesian	polynesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
10	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	analogies	analogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Malay	Malay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	present	present	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **infer** | past | Reinhold |  |  | this table |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **afford** | infinitive | Reinhold *not said here* | the Polynesian languages |  |  |  | many analogies *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **present** | present | Malay | no point of contact |  |  |  | with the American | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent point=Recipient with american=Theme |
| 4 | **point** |  |  | contact |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 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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