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title: As the ocean depths draw near the island coasts, they grow more and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: As the ocean depths draw near the island coasts, they grow more and more shallow and become a wonderful fairy-land into which the dreamer looks from his floating canoe. Who acts: ocean depths, deposits, dreamer. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Hawai
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 14

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As the ocean depths draw near the island coasts, they grow more and more shallow and become a wonderful fairy-land into which the dreamer looks from his floating canoe.

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**Who acts:** ocean depths, deposits, dreamer · **What happens:** draw, grow, become, look · **To what, where:** island coasts, wonderful fairy land

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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 (ocean depths, deposits, dreamer), 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:pg66516:2:14
# text = As the ocean depths draw near the island coasts, they grow more and more shallow and become a wonderful fairy-land into which the dreamer looks from his floating canoe.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	floating	floating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | present | the ocean depths |  |  | the island coasts |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow** | present | deposits *= deposit* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | infinitive | deposits *= deposit* *not said here* | a wonderful fairy land |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | present | the dreamer |  |  |  |  | from dreamer's floating canoe; into a wonderful fairy land | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into which=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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