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title: Of all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Of all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the most stupendous. Who acts: Hawaiian Islands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 1

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Of all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the most stupendous.

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**Who acts:** Hawaiian Islands · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawaiian Islands), 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:pg66516:2:1
# text = Of all the noteworthy groups of islands of fire rock in the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are the most stupendous.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	noteworthy	noteworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	22	advmod	_	_
22	stupendous	stupendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  |  |  | stupendous *property* | tree rules |

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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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