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title: It is also clear that between America and Asia connected islands bui… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It is also clear that between America and Asia connected islands built up by volcanic action follow what appear to be cracks in the floor of the Pacific. 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 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 2

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It is also clear that between America and Asia connected islands built up by volcanic action follow what appear to be cracks in the floor of the Pacific.

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**Who acts:** islands · **What happens:** be, connect, build up, follow, appear · **To what, where:** islands, cracks, floor

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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:pg66516:25:2
# text = It is also clear that between America and Asia connected islands built up by volcanic action follow what appear to be cracks in the floor of the Pacific.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	connected	connect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **connect** | past |  |  |  |  |  | between America and Asia | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **build up** | participle |  | islands *not said here* |  |  |  | by volcanic action | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **follow** | present | islands |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **appear** | present |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | cracks |  | the floor of the Pacific |  |  | tree rules |

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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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