Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 139
Fishnets are so tossed about that it is almost impossible to retain any fish in them.
What happens: toss, be, retain · To what, where: Fishnets, fish
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. 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.
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 | Fishnets | fishnet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tossed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tossed | aux:pass |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 tossed | advmod |
| 4 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 10 impossible | mark |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 impossible | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impossible | expl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 impossible | cop |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 10 impossible | advmod |
| 10 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tossed | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 retain | mark |
| 12 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 impossible | csubj |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 retain | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 retain | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | present · passive | Fishnets | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | almost, impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | retain | to-infinitive | any fish | in Fishnets = fishnet | tree rules |
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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