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title: The depth of the floor of the ocean is greater than the enormous ele… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The depth of the floor of the ocean is greater than the enormous elevation of the mountain ranges along its edge. Who acts: depth, enormous elevation. 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 th
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 4

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The depth of the floor of the ocean is greater than the enormous elevation of the mountain ranges along its edge.

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**Who acts:** depth, enormous elevation · **What happens:** be, range, elevate · **To what, where:** edge, mountain

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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 (depth, enormous elevation), 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:pg66516:25:4
# text = The depth of the floor of the ocean is greater than the enormous elevation of the mountain ranges along its edge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	elevation	elevation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	ranges	range	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
19	along	along	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the depth of the floor of the ocean |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **range** | present | the enormous elevation of the mountain |  |  | ocean's edge |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along edge=Location |
| 3 | **elevate** |  |  | the mountain |  |  |  |  | nom elevation «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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