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title: These are of no value, save as they show some of the forms taken by… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: These are of no value, save as they show some of the forms taken by cooling lava, and are of interest chiefly to the scientist. Who acts: These, value. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 21

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These are of no value, save as they show some of the forms taken by cooling lava, and are of interest chiefly to the scientist.

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**Who acts:** These, value · **What happens:** be, save, show, take, cool · **To what, where:** some, forms, lava

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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: who acts (These, value), 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:pg66516:26:21
# text = These are of no value, save as they show some of the forms taken by cooling lava, and are of interest chiefly to the scientist.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
24	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | These |  |  |  |  | of no value and interest | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | present | value | some of the forms |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Recipient |
| 4 | **take** | participle |  | the forms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cool** | gerund |  | lava |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lava=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | These *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of interest; to the scientist | 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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