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title: The young leaf, pink tinted, comes as the old leaf shading into gray… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The young leaf, pink tinted, comes as the old leaf shading into gray falls from the tree. Who acts: young leaf, old leaf. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Tree, sentence 3

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The young leaf, pink tinted, comes as the old leaf shading into gray falls from the tree.

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**Who acts:** young leaf, old leaf · **What happens:** tint, come, shade, fall · **To what, where:** gray, tree

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young leaf, old leaf), 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:pg66516:9:3
# text = The young leaf, pink tinted, comes as the old leaf shading into gray falls from the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	tinted	tint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	shading	shade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tint** | participle | the young leaf *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | the young leaf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shade** | gerund | the old leaf *not said here* |  |  | gray |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | present | the old leaf |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial\_Location |

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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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