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title: Leahi was evidently forced up through coral reefs and the mighty hea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Leahi was evidently forced up through coral reefs and the mighty heat produced small layers of geyser-like deposits. Who acts: mighty heat. 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 23

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Leahi was evidently forced up through coral reefs and the mighty heat produced small layers of geyser-like deposits.

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**Who acts:** mighty heat · **What happens:** force up, produce · **To what, where:** Leahi, coral reefs, small layers

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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 (mighty heat), 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:pg66516:2:23
# text = Leahi was evidently forced up through coral reefs and the mighty heat produced small layers of geyser-like deposits.
1	Leahi	Leahi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	8	compound	_	_
8	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	geyser	geyser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force up** | past · passive |  | Leahi |  | coral reefs and the mighty heat |  | evidently *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **produce** | participle | the mighty heat *not said here* | small layers of like deposits |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Result |

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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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