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title: These hills were composed of lava, which easily turned into rich soi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: These hills were composed of lava, which easily turned into rich soil when subdued by alternate rain and sunshine. Who acts: lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 34

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These hills were composed of lava, which easily turned into rich soil when subdued by alternate rain and sunshine.

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**Who acts:** lava · **What happens:** compose, turn, subdue · **To what, where:** hills, rich soil

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava), 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:pg66516:10:34
# text = These hills were composed of lava, which easily turned into rich soil when subdued by alternate rain and sunshine.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	alternate	alternate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compose** | past · passive |  | this hills |  |  |  | of lava | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **turn** | past | lava |  |  | rich soil |  | easily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into soil=Trajectory |
| 3 | **subdue** | participle | lava *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by alternate rain and sunshine | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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