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title: No medley of the birds is in the forest; There is quiet, resting in… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: No medley of the birds is in the forest; There is quiet, resting in peace.” Who acts: medley. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 57

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No medley of the birds is in the forest; There is quiet, resting in peace.”

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**Who acts:** medley · **What happens:** be, rest · **To what, where:** forest, peace

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (medley), 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:pg66516:14:57
# text = No medley of the birds is in the forest; There is quiet, resting in peace.”
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	medley	medley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no medley of the birds |  |  | the forest; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | there |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund |  |  |  | peace |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=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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