Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 56
There is much confusion in regard to these two trees even among botanists.
Who acts: much confusion · What happens: be · To what, where: regard
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 (much confusion), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 confusion | amod |
| 4 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 regard | case |
| 6 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 trees | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 trees | nummod |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 regard | nmod |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 botanists | advmod |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 botanists | case |
| 13 | botanists | botanist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trees | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | much confusion | regard to this two trees among botanists; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in regard=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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