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title: The building of these islands has been a most stupendous task, and t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The building of these islands has been a most stupendous task, and the chains of islands resulting from the tremendous volcanic energy still exhibit immense activity. Who acts: building, islands, chains. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 18

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The building of these islands has been a most stupendous task, and the chains of islands resulting from the tremendous volcanic energy still exhibit immense activity.

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**Who acts:** building, islands, chains · **What happens:** be, result, exhibit · **To what, where:** stupendous task, tremendous volcanic energy, immense activity

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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 (building, islands, chains), 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:pg66516:25:18
# text = The building of these islands has been a most stupendous task, and the chains of islands resulting from the tremendous volcanic energy still exhibit immense activity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	stupendous	stupendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	resulting	result	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	exhibit	exhibit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | the building of this islands | a stupendous task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **result** | gerund | islands *not said here* |  |  | the tremendous volcanic energy |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **exhibit** | present | the chains of islands | immense activity |  |  | still |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent activity=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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