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title: Sea-urchins and star-fish crawl lazily along the valleys and the upl… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sea-urchins and star-fish crawl lazily along the valleys and the uplands of the coral reef. Who acts: Sea urchins. 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 17

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Sea-urchins and star-fish crawl lazily along the valleys and the uplands of the coral reef.

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**Who acts:** Sea urchins · **What happens:** crawl · **To what, where:** valleys

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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 (Sea urchins), 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:pg66516:2:17
# text = Sea-urchins and star-fish crawl lazily along the valleys and the uplands of the coral reef.
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	urchins	urchin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	crawl	crawl	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	uplands	upland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	19	compound	_	_
19	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | present | Sea urchins and star fish |  |  | the valleys and the uplands of the coral reef |  | lazily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along valley=Trajectory |

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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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