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title: The storm fell in torrents from black clouds gathered right over the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The storm fell in torrents from black clouds gathered right over the pit. Who acts: storm, black clouds. 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 88

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The storm fell in torrents from black clouds gathered right over the pit.

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**Who acts:** storm, black clouds · **What happens:** fall, gather · **To what, where:** torrents, pit

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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 (storm, black clouds), 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:pg66516:11:88
# text = The storm fell in torrents from black clouds gathered right over the pit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	torrents	torrent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	right	right	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **fall** | past | the storm |  |  | torrents |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in torrent=Location |
| 2 | **gather** | past | black clouds | the pit |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=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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