Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 8
However doctors may differ concerning the way that our earth came into being, most of them agree that in its early days meteoric bodies from space flew together and produced a hotter globe than at present.
Who acts: doctors, earth, most, meteoric bodies · What happens: differ, concern, come, agree, fly, produce · To what, where: way, hotter globe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors, earth, most, meteoric bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 differ | advmod |
| 2 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 differ | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 differ | aux |
| 4 | differ | differ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 differ | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 came | obl |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 earth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 13 being | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 came | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agree | punct |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 agree | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 most | nmod |
| 18 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 differ | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 flew | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 days | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 days | nmod:poss |
| 22 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 days | amod |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flew | obl |
| 24 | meteoric | meteoric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bodies | amod |
| 25 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 space | case |
| 27 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bodies | nmod |
| 28 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 agree | ccomp |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 flew | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 produced | cc |
| 31 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 flew | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 globe | det |
| 33 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 globe | amod |
| 34 | globe | globe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 produced | obj |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 present | case |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 present | case |
| 37 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 produced | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | may | doctors | concern the way; however property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | our earth | the way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | agree speech: agree | present | most of doctors | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | fly | past | meteoric bodies from space | day | together property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | produce | past | meteoric bodies from space not said here | a hotter globe | than present | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent globe=Result |
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.
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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