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title: Wonderfully restful is the dream life of the winterless seas of the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Wonderfully restful is the dream life of the winterless seas of the coral caves, and yet even to-day fierce floods of boiling lava sometimes find their way over the seashore and down over the reefs, destroying the life of sea-moss and coral polyps, and surrounding shells and fish and crawling slugs 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 20

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Wonderfully restful is the dream life of the winterless seas of the coral caves, and yet even to-day fierce floods of boiling lava sometimes find their way over the seashore and down over the reefs, destroying the life of sea-moss and coral polyps, and surrounding shells and fish and crawling slugs or swift-moving eels with floods of turbid, boiling, death-dealing water in place of the clear waves through which they had been accustomed to journey.

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**Who acts:** fierce floods, boiling lava · **What happens:** be, find, destroy, surround, move, boil · **To what, where:** restful dream life, way, seashore, life, shells, eels

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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 (fierce floods, boiling lava), 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:pg66516:2:20
# text = Wonderfully restful is the dream life of the winterless seas of the coral caves, and yet even to-day fierce floods of boiling lava sometimes find their way over the seashore and down over the reefs, destroying the life of sea-moss and coral polyps, and surrounding shells and fish and crawling slugs or swift-moving eels with floods of turbid, boiling, death-dealing water in place of the clear waves through which they had been accustomed to journey.
1	Wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	restful	restful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	winterless	winterless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	14	compound	_	_
14	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	over	over	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	49	compound	_	_
49	polyps	polyp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	_
53	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	crawling	crawling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	slugs	slug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	conj	_	_
59	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	52	conj	_	_
63	eels	eel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obj	_	_
64	with	with	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
69	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
71	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	71	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	conj	_	_
74	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obj	_	_
75	in	in	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
77	of	of	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	80	det	_	_
79	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	80	amod	_	_
80	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	76	nmod	_	_
81	through	through	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
82	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	86	obl	_	_
83	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	86	nsubj:pass	_	_
84	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	86	aux	_	_
85	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	86	aux:pass	_	_
86	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	80	acl:relcl	_	_
87	to	to	PART	TO	_	88	mark	_	_
88	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the restful dream life |  |  |  | of the winterless seas of the coral caves | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | fierce floods of boiling lava | floods's way |  | the seashore and the reefs |  | sometimes *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 3 | **destroy** | gerund | fierce floods of boiling lava *not said here* | the life of sea moss and coral polyps |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 4 | **surround** | gerund | fierce floods of boiling lava *not said here* | shells and fish and crawling slugs |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shell=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **move** | gerund | fierce floods of boiling lava *not said here* | eels |  |  |  | with floods of turbid; swift *compound* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eel=Theme |
| 6 | **boil** | gerund | fierce floods of boiling lava *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **deal** | gerund | fierce floods of boiling lava *not said here* | water |  | place of the clear waves |  | death *compound* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 8 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | floods *= flood* |  | the clear waves |  | journey *xcomp* | tree rules |
| 9 | **flood** |  | boiling lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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