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title: Red and gray, and blue and green clays abound. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Red and gray, and blue and green clays abound. Who acts: Red clays. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawaiian Islands, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 11

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Red and gray, and blue and green clays abound.

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**Who acts:** Red clays · **What happens:** abound

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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 (Red clays), 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:pg66516:2:11
# text = Red and gray, and blue and green clays abound.
1	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
9	clays	clay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	abound	abound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | present | Red clays |  |  |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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