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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 10

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On the moon these rings and pits are now cold, remnant from a time when the gases from the inside of our satellite were bubbling forth from a great internal heat supply and bringing with them oceans of slag which seethed and swirled in circular pools which formed symmetrically within ramparts of their own spatter.

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**Who acts:** rings, gases, slag, circular pools · **What happens:** be, bubble, bring, seethe, swirl, form · **To what, where:** moon, great internal heat supply, oceans, circular pools

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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 (rings, gases, slag, circular pools), 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:pg66516:1:10
# text = On the moon these rings and pits are now cold, remnant from a time when the gases from the inside of our satellite were bubbling forth from a great internal heat supply and bringing with them oceans of slag which seethed and swirled in circular pools which formed symmetrically within ramparts of their own spatter.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pits	pit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	remnant	remnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	mark	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	inside	inside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	satellite	satellite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	oceans	ocean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	slag	slag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	seethed	seethe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	swirled	swirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	circular	circular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
49	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	acl:relcl	_	_
50	symmetrically	symmetrically	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	within	within	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	ramparts	rampart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
55	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	spatter	spatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this rings and pits |  |  | the moon | now | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bubble** | past · progressive | the gases from the inside of our satellite |  |  | a great internal heat supply |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from supply=Source |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | the gases from the inside of our satellite *not said here* | oceans of slag |  |  |  | with gases *= gas* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme |
| 4 | **seethe** | past | slag |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **swirl** | participle | slag *not said here* |  |  | circular pools |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location |
| 6 | **form** | past | circular pools |  |  |  |  | within ramparts of gases's own spatter; symmetrically *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **spatter** |  | gases *= gas* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spatter «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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