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title: At the end of this uncovered old lava two symmetrical mounds rise fr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: At the end of this uncovered old lava two symmetrical mounds rise from the rugged splintered rocks. Who acts: two symmetrical mounds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 17

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At the end of this uncovered old lava two symmetrical mounds rise from the rugged splintered rocks.

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**Who acts:** two symmetrical mounds · **What happens:** uncover, rise, rug, splinter · **To what, where:** end, rocks

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two symmetrical mounds), 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:pg66516:7:17
# text = At the end of this uncovered old lava two symmetrical mounds rise from the rugged splintered rocks.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	symmetrical	symmetrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mounds	mound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rugged	rug	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
16	splintered	splinter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uncover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | present | two symmetrical mounds |  |  |  | at the end | of uncovered old lava  this | tree rules |
| 3 | **rug** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **splinter** | past | two symmetrical mounds *not said here* | rocks |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |

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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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