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title: Sometimes mimiki is used to denote the choppy waters which follow a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes mimiki is used to denote the choppy waters which follow a storm. Who acts: choppy waters. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 143

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Sometimes mimiki is used to denote the choppy waters which follow a storm.

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**Who acts:** choppy waters · **What happens:** use, denote, follow · **To what, where:** mimiki, choppy waters, storm

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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: who acts (choppy waters), 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:pg66516:27:143
# text = Sometimes mimiki is used to denote the choppy waters which follow a storm.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	mimiki	mimiki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	denote	denote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	choppy	choppy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · passive |  | mimiki |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **denote** | to-infinitive |  | the choppy waters |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Topic |
| 3 | **follow** | present | the choppy waters | a storm |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |

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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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