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title: The land of the island Hawaii slopes down from the raging fire-pit,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The land of the island Hawaii slopes down from the raging fire-pit, mile after mile, through dense tropical forests and shining lava beds, until it enfolds, in black lava shores, the ceaselessly moving waters of the bay of Hilo. Who acts: land, forest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (m
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons, sentence 23

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The land of the island Hawaii slopes down from the raging fire-pit, mile after mile, through dense tropical forests and shining lava beds, until it enfolds, in black lava shores, the ceaselessly moving waters of the bay of Hilo.

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**Who acts:** land, forest · **What happens:** slope down, rage, shine, enfold, move · **To what, where:** raging fire pit, lava beds, black lava shores

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hiiaka’s Battle With Demons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, forest), 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:pg66516:16:23
# text = The land of the island Hawaii slopes down from the raging fire-pit, mile after mile, through dense tropical forests and shining lava beds, until it enfolds, in black lava shores, the ceaselessly moving waters of the bay of Hilo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	slopes	slope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
12	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	enfolds	enfold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	ceaselessly	ceaselessly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
41	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slope down** | present | the land of the island |  |  | the raging fire pit and mile after mile |  | through dense tropical forests; down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |
| 2 | **rage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | the land of the island *not said here* | lava beds |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 4 | **enfold** | present | forest | black lava shores and the moving waters of the bay of Hilo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | ceaselessly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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