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title: The high mountains of the island Hawaii, snow covered, lay in the di… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The high mountains of the island Hawaii, snow covered, lay in the distance. Who acts: high mountains. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), How Pele Came to Hawaii, sentence 98

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The high mountains of the island Hawaii, snow covered, lay in the distance.

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**Who acts:** high mountains · **What happens:** cover, lay · **To what, where:** snow

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, How Pele Came to Hawaii. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high mountains), 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:pg66516:5:98
# text = The high mountains of the island Hawaii, snow covered, lay in the distance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle · passive | the high mountains of the island Hawaii *not said here* | snow |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | present | the high mountains of the island Hawaii |  |  |  |  | in the distance | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in distance=Destination |

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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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