--- title: Between this majestic range of island mountains and the “Giants of t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Between this majestic range of island mountains and the “Giants of the Rockies,” along the western coast of the United States, lies a rough ocean valley abounding in hills and deep ravines with an average depth under the sea-surface of about 2,600 fathoms, or 15,600 feet. Who acts: rough ocean valle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/2/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [The Hawaiian Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/2/) / 8 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Hawaiian Islands, sentence 8 Between this majestic range of island mountains and the “Giants of the Rockies,” along the western coast of the United States, lies a rough ocean valley abounding in hills and deep ravines with an average depth under the sea-surface of about 2,600 fathoms, or 15,600 feet. **Who acts:** rough ocean valley · **What happens:** lie, abound · **To what, where:** rough ocean valley, hills 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 (rough ocean valley), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:2:8 # text = Between this majestic range of island mountains and the “Giants of the Rockies,” along the western coast of the United States, lies a rough ocean valley abounding in hills and deep ravines with an average depth under the sea-surface of about 2,600 fathoms, or 15,600 feet. 1 Between between ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 majestic majestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 range range NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Giants Giant PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Rockies Rocky PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 17 along along ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 coast coast NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 United United ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 States State PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 26 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 abounding abound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ravines ravine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 average average ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 depth depth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 41 under under ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 44 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 about about ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 2,600 2,600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 49 fathoms fathom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 or or CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 15,600 15,600 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | | a rough ocean valley | | | | between this majestic range of island mountains the Giants of the Rockies along the western coast of the United States | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location valley=Theme | | 2 | **abound** | gerund | a rough ocean valley *not said here* | | | hills and deep ravines | | with a average depth; under the sea surface of 2,600 fathoms or 15,600 feet | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/2/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/2/9/) - ↑ back to [The Hawaiian Islands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/2/)