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title: Not only are names wanting for the more general abstractions, such a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Not only are names wanting for the more general abstractions, such as space, nature, fate, etc., but there are very few generic terms. Who acts: names, few generic terms. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 8

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Not only are names wanting for the more general abstractions, such as space, nature, fate, etc., but there are very few generic terms.

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**Who acts:** names, few generic terms · **What happens:** not be, want, be · **To what, where:** names

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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 (names, few generic terms), 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:pg66516:31:8
# text = Not only are names wanting for the more general abstractions, such as space, nature, fate, etc., but there are very few generic terms.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
9	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	abstractions	abstraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	generic	generic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | names |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | gerund | names *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the more general abstractions such space and nature and fate and etc. | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **does** | present | few generic terms |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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