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title: Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions, whirlwinds, avalanches, lava flows, earthquakes, and fiery blasts which composed the narrative of the domain of Pele before man appeared upon the scene. Who acts: such story, lava, fiery blasts, man. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 32

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Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions, whirlwinds, avalanches, lava flows, earthquakes, and fiery blasts which composed the narrative of the domain of Pele before man appeared upon the scene.

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**Who acts:** such story, lava, fiery blasts, man · **What happens:** outline, flow, compose, appear · **To what, where:** tremendous events, whirlwinds, narrative, scene

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such story, lava, fiery blasts, man), 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:pg66516:1:32
# text = Some such story as this outlines the tremendous events, explosions, whirlwinds, avalanches, lava flows, earthquakes, and fiery blasts which composed the narrative of the domain of Pele before man appeared upon the scene.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	outlines	outline	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	explosions	explosion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	whirlwinds	whirlwind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	avalanches	avalanche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
37	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outline** *speech: other* | present | some such story as this | the tremendous events and explosions and whirlwinds and avalanches and earthquakes |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=Topic |
| 2 | **flow** | present | lava | whirlwinds and avalanches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whirlwind=Theme |
| 3 | **compose** | past | fiery blasts | the narrative of the domain of Pele |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrative=Result |
| 4 | **appear** | past | man |  |  | the scene |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon scene=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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