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title: The territory is American, and these volcanoes are famous in the his… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The territory is American, and these volcanoes are famous in the history of science for their remarkably liquid lavas and nearly continuous activity.” Who acts: territory, volcanoes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with it
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 30

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The territory is American, and these volcanoes are famous in the history of science for their remarkably liquid lavas and nearly continuous activity.”

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**Who acts:** territory, volcanoes · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** history

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (territory, volcanoes), 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:pg66516:29:30
# text = The territory is American, and these volcanoes are famous in the history of science for their remarkably liquid lavas and nearly continuous activity.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
18	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lavas	lava	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the territory |  |  |  |  | american *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | this volcanoes |  |  | the history of science |  | for waters's liquid lavas and continuous activity; famous *property* | 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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