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title: Its hillsides were covered with grass which afforded the very best f… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Its hillsides were covered with grass which afforded the very best facilities for sliding down hill. Who acts: grass. 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 7

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Its hillsides were covered with grass which afforded the very best facilities for sliding down hill.

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**Who acts:** grass · **What happens:** cover, afford, slide · **To what, where:** hillsides, best facilities, hill

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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 (grass), 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:pg66516:10:7
# text = Its hillsides were covered with grass which afforded the very best facilities for sliding down hill.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hillsides	hillside	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	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	afforded	afford	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	facilities	facility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | island's hillsides |  |  |  | with grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with grass=Theme |
| 2 | **afford** | past | grass | the best facilities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slide** | gerund | grass *not said here* | hill |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 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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