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title: [23] Tree fern—Cibotium Menziesii. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: [23] Tree fern—Cibotium Menziesii. 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 63

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\[23\] Tree fern—Cibotium Menziesii.

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**To what, where:** 23 Tree fern

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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:pg66516:31:63
# text = [23] Tree fern—Cibotium Menziesii.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Cibotium	Cibotium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	Menziesii	Menziesii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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