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title: For example there is no generic term for animal, expressing the whol… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For example there is no generic term for animal, expressing the whole class of living creatures or for insects or for colors. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 9

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For example there is no generic term for animal, expressing the whole class of living creatures or for insects or for colors.

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**What happens:** be, express · **To what, where:** generic term, whole class

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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: 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:pg66516:31:9
# text = For example there is no generic term for animal, expressing the whole class of living creatures or for insects or for colors.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	generic	generic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	expressing	express	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | no generic term |  |  |  | for example; for animal | tree rules |
| 2 | **express** | gerund |  | the whole class of living creatures or insects or colors |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=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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