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title: Others say that it comes from scattered pockets of liquid under a st… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Others say that it comes from scattered pockets of liquid under a stiff shell and over a stiffer inner globe. Who acts: Others, liquid. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 16

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Others say that it comes from scattered pockets of liquid under a stiff shell and over a stiffer inner globe.

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**Who acts:** Others, liquid · **What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** scattered pockets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Others, liquid), 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:pg66516:1:16
# text = Others say that it comes from scattered pockets of liquid under a stiff shell and over a stiffer inner globe.
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	8	amod	_	_
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	stiffer	stiff	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
19	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	globe	globe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | present | liquid |  |  | scattered pockets of liquid |  | under a stiff shell and a stiffer inner globe | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location |

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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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