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title: Explosions of bursting lava resounded like thunder all around her. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Explosions of bursting lava resounded like thunder all around her. Who acts: Explosions. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 65

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Explosions of bursting lava resounded like thunder all around her.

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**Who acts:** Explosions · **What happens:** burst, resound · **To what, where:** lava, Explosions

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Explosions), 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:pg66516:10:65
# text = Explosions of bursting lava resounded like thunder all around her.
1	Explosions	explosion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	resounded	resound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | gerund | Explosions *not said here* | lava |  |  |  | around Pele | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lava=Theme |
| 2 | **resound** | participle |  | lava *not said here* |  |  |  | like thunder | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «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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