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title: The surface of the sea is itself covered with ceaselessly moving wav… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The surface of the sea is itself covered with ceaselessly moving waves reflecting a tropical luxuriance of color. Who acts: moving waves. 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 18

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The surface of the sea is itself covered with ceaselessly moving waves reflecting a tropical luxuriance of color.

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**Who acts:** moving waves · **What happens:** cover, move, reflect · **To what, where:** surface, tropical luxuriance

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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 (moving waves), 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:pg66516:2:18
# text = The surface of the sea is itself covered with ceaselessly moving waves reflecting a tropical luxuriance of color.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	ceaselessly	ceaselessly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
13	reflecting	reflect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive | moving waves | the surface of the sea |  |  |  | sea *obl:unmarked* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | ceaselessly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reflect** | gerund | moving waves *not said here* | a tropical luxuriance of color |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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