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title: Interspersed through this concise and interesting story of earthquak… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Interspersed through this concise and interesting story of earthquakes told in a few word pictures are many references to other volcanic phenomena. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 10

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Interspersed through this concise and interesting story of earthquakes told in a few word pictures are many references to other volcanic phenomena.

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**What happens:** intersperse, tell, be · **To what, where:** concise story, earthquakes, few word pictures, Interspersed many references · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:27:10
# text = Interspersed through this concise and interesting story of earthquakes told in a few word pictures are many references to other volcanic phenomena.
1	Interspersed	intersperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
4	concise	concise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	phenomena	phenomena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intersperse** | participle |  |  |  | this concise story of earthquakes |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | earthquakes *not said here* |  | a few word pictures |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | Interspersed many references |  |  |  | to other volcanic phenomena | 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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