---
title: The majestic masses of clouds almost always hanging over Mt. — Hawaiian Historical Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: The majestic masses of clouds almost always hanging over Mt. Who acts: clouds. A sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/219/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Historical Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/) / [The Alapa Regiment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/) / 219

# Hawaiian Historical Legends, The Alapa Regiment, sentence 219

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The majestic masses of clouds almost always hanging over Mt.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** clouds · **What happens:** hang · **To what, where:** Mt, majestic masses

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, The Alapa Regiment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66357:14:219
# text = The majestic masses of clouds almost always hanging over Mt.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mt	Mt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | gerund | clouds *not said here* |  |  | Mt |  | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over mt=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Hawaiian Historical Legends» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66357 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/218/)
- next →: [sentence 220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/220/)
- ↑ back to [The Alapa Regiment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66357/14/)