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title: There are very interesting stories connected with many of them, and… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There are very interesting stories connected with many of them, and there are legends of the origin of some of the small extinct craters which lie at the bases of the mountain ranges. Who acts: interesting stories, legends, small extinct craters. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 6

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There are very interesting stories connected with many of them, and there are legends of the origin of some of the small extinct craters which lie at the bases of the mountain ranges.

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**Who acts:** interesting stories, legends, small extinct craters · **What happens:** be, connect, lie · **To what, where:** interesting stories, bases

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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 (interesting stories, legends, small extinct craters), 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:pg66516:26:6
# text = There are very interesting stories connected with many of them, and there are legends of the origin of some of the small extinct craters which lie at the bases of the mountain ranges.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bases	basis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	ranges	range	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | interesting stories |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  | interesting stories *not said here* |  |  |  | with many of stories | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with many=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **does** | present | legends of the origin of some of the small extinct craters |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | present | the small extinct craters |  |  | the bases of the mountain ranges |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at basis=Location |

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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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