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title: Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption,… — Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian. Who acts: Pliny. A sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes, sentence 6

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Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.

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**Who acts:** Pliny · **What happens:** write, call, account · **To what, where:** eyewitness account, tall column eruptions, AD eruption · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pliny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson:6
# text = Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 047-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Pliny	Pliny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Younger	young	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	eyewitness	eyewitness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	AD	ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	79	79	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	_
12	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
16	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	eruptions	eruption	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
23	Plinian	Plinian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Pliny | a eyewitness account of the AD eruption |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | present · passive |  | tall column eruptions |  |  | now |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the AD eruption |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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