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title: A geological or earthquake map of the Pacific shows that the ocean i… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A geological or earthquake map of the Pacific shows that the ocean is bordered by ranges of volcanic mountains on the American side, and by a long chain of volcanic islands, such as the Aleutian, Japanese, and Formosa islands along the coast of Asia. Who acts: geological earthquake map, ranges. A se
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 1

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A geological or earthquake map of the Pacific shows that the ocean is bordered by ranges of volcanic mountains on the American side, and by a long chain of volcanic islands, such as the Aleutian, Japanese, and Formosa islands along the coast of Asia.

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**Who acts:** geological earthquake map, ranges · **What happens:** show, border · **To what, where:** ocean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geological earthquake map, ranges), 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:pg66516:25:1
# text = A geological or earthquake map of the Pacific shows that the ocean is bordered by ranges of volcanic mountains on the American side, and by a long chain of volcanic islands, such as the Aleutian, Japanese, and Formosa islands along the coast of Asia.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	geological	geological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	37	case	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Aleutian	Aleutian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Japanese	Japanese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	Formosa	Formosa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
44	along	along	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a geological earthquake map of the Pacific |  |  |  |  | a long chain of volcanic islands such the Aleutian and Formosa islands along the coast of Asia *conj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **border** | present · passive | ranges of volcanic mountains on the American side | the ocean |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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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