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title: The disintegration of pumice is given as the chief source for the fo… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The disintegration of pumice is given as the chief source for the formation of this clayey matter. 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 12

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The disintegration of pumice is given as the chief source for the formation of this clayey matter.

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**What happens:** give, disintegrate · **To what, where:** disintegration, pumice

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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: 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:pg66516:2:12
# text = The disintegration of pumice is given as the chief source for the formation of this clayey matter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	disintegration	disintegration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pumice	pumice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	formation	formation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	clayey	clayey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | the disintegration of pumice |  |  |  | as the chief source; for the formation of this clayey matter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for formation=Asset |
| 2 | **disintegrate** |  |  | pumice |  |  |  |  | nom disintegration «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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