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title: Here and there in the decaying volcanic ash and disintegrating lava… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there in the decaying volcanic ash and disintegrating lava can sometimes be found beautiful, small, star-rayed zeolite, or the pale green olivine, or coarse black augite crystals. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dep
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 20

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Here and there in the decaying volcanic ash and disintegrating lava can sometimes be found beautiful, small, star-rayed zeolite, or the pale green olivine, or coarse black augite crystals.

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**What happens:** decay, disintegrate, find, ray · **To what, where:** lava, rayed zeolite

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:26:20
# text = Here and there in the decaying volcanic ash and disintegrating lava can sometimes be found beautiful, small, star-rayed zeolite, or the pale green olivine, or coarse black augite crystals.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	decaying	decay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	disintegrating	disintegrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	rayed	ray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	zeolite	zeolite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	olivine	olivine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	augite	augite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **disintegrate** | gerund |  | lava |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lava=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | can · passive |  | rayed zeolite |  | here; there |  | the pale green olivine or coarse black augite crystals *obl*; beautiful, sometimes *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 4 | **ray** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | star *compound* | 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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