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title: It appears very much like slag from iron furnaces, only infinitely w… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It appears very much like slag from iron furnaces, only infinitely worse to handle. Who acts: It. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 54

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It appears very much like slag from iron furnaces, only infinitely worse to handle.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** appear, handle · **To what, where:** iron furnaces

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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 (It), 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:pg66516:26:54
# text = It appears very much like slag from iron furnaces, only infinitely worse to handle.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	slag	slag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	infinitely	infinitely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | It |  |  | iron furnaces |  | like slag | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **handle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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