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title: These plants break up the fire-rock very rapidly and send seeds broa… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: These plants break up the fire-rock very rapidly and send seeds broadcast to multiply soil-making activities. Who acts: plants. 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 26

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These plants break up the fire-rock very rapidly and send seeds broadcast to multiply soil-making activities.

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**Who acts:** plants · **What happens:** break up, send, broadcast, multiply, make · **To what, where:** fire rock, seeds, making activities

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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 (plants), 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:pg66516:2:26
# text = These plants break up the fire-rock very rapidly and send seeds broadcast to multiply soil-making activities.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	broadcast	broadcast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	multiply	multiply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	activities	activity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break up** | present | this plants | the fire rock |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |
| 2 | **send** | present | this plants *not said here* | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 3 | **broadcast** *speech: other* | participle |  | seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn instr\_communication-37.4.1 «NP V when S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **multiply** | to-infinitive |  | making activities |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | soil *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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