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title: The line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna Loa on the larg… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna Loa on the large island of Hawaii is such a curved ridge, now of enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific, but perhaps at one time much lower and more extended into something like a circle. Who acts: line. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 12

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The line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna Loa on the large island of Hawaii is such a curved ridge, now of enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific, but perhaps at one time much lower and more extended into something like a circle.

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**Who acts:** line · **What happens:** curve, be, extend · **To what, where:** curved ridge, one time, something

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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 (line), 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:pg66516:1:12
# text = The line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna Loa on the large island of Hawaii is such a curved ridge, now of enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific, but perhaps at one time much lower and more extended into something like a circle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Kauai	Kauai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	curved	curve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	above	above	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	much	much	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	lower	low	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
44	extended	extend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	44	obl	_	_
47	like	like	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the line of the Hawaiian Islands from Kauai to Mauna on the large island of Hawaii | such curved ridge and enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific |  |  | time | enormous height above the bottom of the Pacific *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **extend** | participle |  | one time *not said here* |  | something like a circle |  | low *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into something=Path |

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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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