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title: However doctors may differ concerning the way that our earth came in… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 8

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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.

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**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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:1:8
# text = 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.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	differ	differ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
24	meteoric	meteoric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	hotter	hot	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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