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title: Out of these awful ocean depths have come the chains and groups of i… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of these awful ocean depths have come the chains and groups of islands which form Polynesia. Who acts: islands. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 12

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Out of these awful ocean depths have come the chains and groups of islands which form Polynesia.

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**Who acts:** islands · **What happens:** come, form · **To what, where:** chains, Polynesia

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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 (islands), 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:pg66516:25:12
# text = Out of these awful ocean depths have come the chains and groups of islands which form Polynesia.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Polynesia	Polynesia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect |  | the chains and groups of islands |  |  |  | of this awful ocean depths | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | present | islands | Polynesia |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location polynesia=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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