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title: Flowers which are like beautiful red fringed balls are always found… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Flowers which are like beautiful red fringed balls are always found glorifying the varicolored foliage. Who acts: Flowers. 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 4

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Flowers which are like beautiful red fringed balls are always found glorifying the varicolored foliage.

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**Who acts:** Flowers · **What happens:** fringe, be, find, glorify · **To what, where:** Flowers, varicolored foliage

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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 (Flowers), 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:pg66516:9:4
# text = Flowers which are like beautiful red fringed balls are always found glorifying the varicolored foliage.
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	fringed	fringe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	acl:relcl	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	glorifying	glorify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	varicolored	varicolored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fringe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Flowers |  |  |  |  | like beautiful red fringed balls | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | Flowers |  |  |  | always *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **glorify** | gerund | Flowers *not said here* | the varicolored foliage |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foliage=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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