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title: The lava disintegrating made earth deposits and soil. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The lava disintegrating made earth deposits and soil. Who acts: lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Ai-laau, the Forest Eater, sentence 12

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The lava disintegrating made earth deposits and soil.

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**Who acts:** lava · **What happens:** disintegrate, make · **To what, where:** made earth deposits, lava

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Ai-laau, the Forest Eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava), 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:pg66516:4:12
# text = The lava disintegrating made earth deposits and soil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	disintegrating	disintegrate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	deposits	deposit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disintegrate** | gerund | the lava *not said here* | made earth deposits and soil |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent deposit=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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