Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 10
At the same time it abounds in specific names and in nice distinctions.
Who acts: animal · What happens: abound · To what, where: specific names
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 (animal), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 abounds | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 abounds | nsubj |
| 6 | abounds | abound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 names | case |
| 8 | specific | specific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 names | amod |
| 9 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 abounds | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 distinctions | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 distinctions | case |
| 12 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distinctions | amod |
| 13 | distinctions | distinction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 names | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 abounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abound | present | animal | specific names and nice distinctions | time | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in name=Location |
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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