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title: Baron William von Humboldt, the distinguished statesman and scholar,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Baron William von Humboldt, the distinguished statesman and scholar, showed that the Tagala, the leading language of the Philippine Islands, is by far the richest and most perfect of these languages. Who acts: Baron, Tagala. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westerve
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 28

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Baron William von Humboldt, the distinguished statesman and scholar, showed that the Tagala, the leading language of the Philippine Islands, is by far the richest and most perfect of these languages.

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**Who acts:** Baron, Tagala · **What happens:** show, lead, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Baron, Tagala), 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:pg66516:31:28
# text = Baron William von Humboldt, the distinguished statesman and scholar, showed that the Tagala, the leading language of the Philippine Islands, is by far the richest and most perfect of these languages.
1	Baron	Baron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	von	von	PROPN	NNP	_	1	flat	_	_
4	Humboldt	Humboldt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	statesman	statesman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tagala	Tagala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Philippine	philippine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	ccomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | Baron |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Tagala |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the Tagala *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this languages | 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 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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