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title: Rich sandy plains are there, where everything grows wonderfully.” — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Rich sandy plains are there, where everything grows wonderfully.” Who acts: Rich sandy plains, everything. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Chiefs of Puna, sentence 64

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Rich sandy plains are there, where everything grows wonderfully.”

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**Who acts:** Rich sandy plains, everything · **What happens:** be, grow

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Chiefs of Puna. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rich sandy plains, everything), 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:pg66516:8:64
# text = Rich sandy plains are there, where everything grows wonderfully.”
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Rich sandy plains |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | everything |  |  |  |  | wonderfully *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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