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title: [16] One ohia tree is supposed to bear apples, another flowers only,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: [16] One ohia tree is supposed to bear apples, another flowers only, the flowers being called lehua. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Polynesian Language, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Polynesian Language, sentence 55

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\[16\] One ohia tree is supposed to bear apples, another flowers only, the flowers being called lehua.

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**What happens:** suppose, bear, call · **To what, where:** 16 ohia tree, apples, flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg66516:31:55
# text = [16] One ohia tree is supposed to bear apples, another flowers only, the flowers being called lehua.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	ohia	ohia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
21	lehua	lehua	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | 16 ohia tree |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | apples and another flowers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | gerund · passive |  | the flowers |  |  |  | lehua *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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