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title: The New Zealand islands have a volcanic region around Roturua which… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The New Zealand islands have a volcanic region around Roturua which is visited by numbers of tourists every year. Who acts: Zealand islands, numbers. 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
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 20

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The New Zealand islands have a volcanic region around Roturua which is visited by numbers of tourists every year.

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**Who acts:** Zealand islands, numbers · **What happens:** have, visit · **To what, where:** volcanic region, Roturua

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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 (Zealand islands, numbers), 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:pg66516:25:20
# text = The New Zealand islands have a volcanic region around Roturua which is visited by numbers of tourists every year.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Roturua	Roturua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	visited	visit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	tourists	tourist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Zealand islands | a volcanic region |  | Roturua |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient |
| 2 | **visit** | present · passive | numbers of tourists | a volcanic region |  |  | year |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent |

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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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