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title: Strange branching thickets of coral lie below, sometimes fringed wit… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Strange branching thickets of coral lie below, sometimes fringed with moving seaweeds and exquisitely colored sea-mosses, while through the coral and moss swim the marvellously painted fish of a hundred varieties. Who acts: Strange branching thickets, marvellously. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 15

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Strange branching thickets of coral lie below, sometimes fringed with moving seaweeds and exquisitely colored sea-mosses, while through the coral and moss swim the marvellously painted fish of a hundred varieties.

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**Who acts:** Strange branching thickets, marvellously · **What happens:** lie, fringe, move, color, swim, paint · **To what, where:** coral, fish

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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 (Strange branching thickets, marvellously), 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:pg66516:2:15
# text = Strange branching thickets of coral lie below, sometimes fringed with moving seaweeds and exquisitely colored sea-mosses, while through the coral and moss swim the marvellously painted fish of a hundred varieties.
1	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	branching	branching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	seaweeds	seaweed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mosses	moss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	marvellously	marvellously	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	varieties	variety	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Strange branching thickets of coral |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fringe** | participle | Strange branching thickets of coral *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with moving seaweeds and colored sea mosses; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | exquisitely *property* | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **swim** | present | Strange branching thickets of coral *not said here* |  |  | the coral and moss |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **paint** | past | the marvellously | fish of hundred varieties |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fish=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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