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title: Turning and twisting in and out of coral caves are the spotted eels… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Turning and twisting in and out of coral caves are the spotted eels or the great pink or brown anemone-headed sea-worms. 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 16

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Turning and twisting in and out of coral caves are the spotted eels or the great pink or brown anemone-headed sea-worms.

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**What happens:** turn, twist, spot, be, head · **To what, where:** spotted eels, coral caves

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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:pg66516:2:16
# text = Turning and twisting in and out of coral caves are the spotted eels or the great pink or brown anemone-headed sea-worms.
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	9	compound	_	_
9	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
17	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	anemone	anemone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
23	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **twist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the spotted eels or the great pink headed sea worms |  | coral caves |  | the great pink headed sea worms *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | anemone *compound* | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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