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title: It was thick enough to withstand the boiling waves through which he… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: It was thick enough to withstand the boiling waves through which he swam out into the deep sea. Who acts: skin, puaa. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kama-puaa, sentence 111

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It was thick enough to withstand the boiling waves through which he swam out into the deep sea.

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**Who acts:** skin, puaa · **What happens:** be, withstand, swim out · **To what, where:** boiling waves

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kama-puaa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skin, puaa), 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:pg66516:11:111
# text = It was thick enough to withstand the boiling waves through which he swam out into the deep sea.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	withstand	withstand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | skin |  |  |  |  | enough, thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **withstand** | to-infinitive | skin *not said here* | the boiling waves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim out** | past | puaa |  |  | the boiling waves |  | into the deep sea; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |

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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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