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title: There in a beautiful garden spot grew the fine food plants of the ol… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There in a beautiful garden spot grew the fine food plants of the old Hawaiians. Who acts: beautiful garden spot. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 12

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There in a beautiful garden spot grew the fine food plants of the old Hawaiians.

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**Who acts:** beautiful garden spot · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** fine food plants

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful garden spot), 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:pg66516:15:12
# text = There in a beautiful garden spot grew the fine food plants of the old Hawaiians.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Hawaiians	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | a beautiful garden spot | the fine food plants of the old Hawaiians |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plant=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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