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title: On the island Hawaii are three great mountains from 8,200 to 13,600… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: On the island Hawaii are three great mountains from 8,200 to 13,600 feet above the ocean, which smashes its mighty tides and surf waves against the coast below. Who acts: ocean. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dependency tre
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 22

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On the island Hawaii are three great mountains from 8,200 to 13,600 feet above the ocean, which smashes its mighty tides and surf waves against the coast below.

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**Who acts:** ocean · **What happens:** be, smash, tide · **To what, where:** three great mountains, island, mighty tides, coast

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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 (ocean), 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:pg66516:26:22
# text = On the island Hawaii are three great mountains from 8,200 to 13,600 feet above the ocean, which smashes its mighty tides and surf waves against the coast below.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	8,200	8,200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	13,600	13,600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	above	above	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	smashes	smash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
29	below	below	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | three great mountains |  | the island |  | from 8,200 feet above the ocean | tree rules |
| 2 | **smash** | present | the ocean | ocean's mighty tides and surf waves |  | the coast |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tide=Theme against coast=Destination |
| 3 | **tide** |  | ocean |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=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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