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title: The softer parts of the petrified streams had dissolved and the surf… — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The softer parts of the petrified streams had dissolved and the surface of the land was covered with the hard fragments which remained. Who acts: hard fragments. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Eight of Oahu, sentence 28

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The softer parts of the petrified streams had dissolved and the surface of the land was covered with the hard fragments which remained.

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**Who acts:** hard fragments · **What happens:** petrify, dissolve, cover, remain · **To what, where:** softer parts, surface

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Eight of Oahu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hard fragments), 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:pg66357:16:28
# text = The softer parts of the petrified streams had dissolved and the surface of the land was covered with the hard fragments which remained.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	petrified	petrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **petrify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dissolve** | past · perfect · passive |  | the softer parts of the petrified streams |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the surface of the land |  |  |  | with the hard fragments | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fragment=Theme |
| 4 | **remain** | past | the hard fragments |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (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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