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title: We do not know how much more frequent these things were in the old d… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: We do not know how much more frequent these things were in the old days, but there were probably eras of quiet and eras of excitement just as at present. Who acts: We, things, eras. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Opening, with its dependency tree and t
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Opening, sentence 33

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We do not know how much more frequent these things were in the old days, but there were probably eras of quiet and eras of excitement just as at present.

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**Who acts:** We, things, eras · **What happens:** not know, be

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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 (We, things, eras), 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:pg66516:1:33
# text = We do not know how much more frequent these things were in the old days, but there were probably eras of quiet and eras of excitement just as at present.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	eras	era	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	eras	era	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | this things |  |  |  | in the frequent old days |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | eras of quiet at present and eras of excitement |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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