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title: The large mountains of all the islands, except Hawaii, have no hot s… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The large mountains of all the islands, except Hawaii, have no hot springs and no outlets for steam or hot air which would indicate any remnant of living fire still abiding in them. Who acts: large mountains, steam, living fire. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. West
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 9

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The large mountains of all the islands, except Hawaii, have no hot springs and no outlets for steam or hot air which would indicate any remnant of living fire still abiding in them.

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**Who acts:** large mountains, steam, living fire · **What happens:** have, indicate, abide · **To what, where:** remnant

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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 (large mountains, steam, living fire), 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:pg66516:26:9
# text = The large mountains of all the islands, except Hawaii, have no hot springs and no outlets for steam or hot air which would indicate any remnant of living fire still abiding in them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	outlets	outlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	abiding	abide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the large mountains of all islands |  |  |  | spring |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **indicate** | would | steam or hot air | any remnant of living fire |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot remnant=Topic |
| 3 | **abide** | gerund | living fire *not said here* |  |  |  | still | in mountains *= mountain* | 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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