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title: The story stands as an ancient memory of volcanic activity so mighty… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The story stands as an ancient memory of volcanic activity so mighty and so extensive as to produce islands in the time of human experience. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, with its dependency tree
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 26

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The story stands as an ancient memory of volcanic activity so mighty and so extensive as to produce islands in the time of human experience.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** stand, produce · **To what, where:** islands

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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 (story), 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:pg66516:25:26
# text = The story stands as an ancient memory of volcanic activity so mighty and so extensive as to produce islands in the time of human experience.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	produce	produce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the story |  |  |  |  | as a ancient memory of volcanic activity | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **produce** | to-infinitive | the story *not said here* | islands |  |  | time |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Result |

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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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