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title: Dark-leaved the trees in the midst of the hot sun. Heat rising from… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Dark-leaved the trees in the midst of the hot sun. Heat rising from the face of the moist lava. Who acts: hot sun. Heat. 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 83

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Dark-leaved the trees in the midst of the hot sun. Heat rising from the face of the moist lava.

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**Who acts:** hot sun. Heat · **What happens:** leav, rise · **To what, where:** face, leaved trees

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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 (hot sun. Heat), 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:pg66516:14:83
# text = Dark-leaved the trees in the midst of the hot sun. Heat rising from the face of the moist lava.
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	leaved	leav	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leav** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | the hot sun. Heat *not said here* |  |  | the face of the moist lava |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from face=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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