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title: The ohia forests grow abundantly and rapidly on lava even recently t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The ohia forests grow abundantly and rapidly on lava even recently thrown out by the eruptions from Pele’s lake of fire. Who acts: ohia forests. 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 6

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The ohia forests grow abundantly and rapidly on lava even recently thrown out by the eruptions from Pele’s lake of fire.

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**Who acts:** ohia forests · **What happens:** grow, throw out · **To what, where:** lava

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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 (ohia forests), 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:pg66516:9:6
# text = The ohia forests grow abundantly and rapidly on lava even recently thrown out by the eruptions from Pele’s lake of fire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ohia	ohia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | the ohia forests |  |  |  |  | abundantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **throw out** | participle | the ohia forests *not said here* |  |  | lava |  | by the eruptions; from Pele's lake of fire; recently *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on lava=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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