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title: Thunder followed the rolling, rumbling tongue of branching lightning. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thunder followed the rolling, rumbling tongue of branching lightning. Who acts: Thunder. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 138

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Thunder followed the rolling, rumbling tongue of branching lightning.

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**Who acts:** Thunder · **What happens:** follow, rumble · **To what, where:** rolling, tongue

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thunder), 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:pg66516:14:138
# text = Thunder followed the rolling, rumbling tongue of branching lightning.
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	rumbling	rumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	branching	branching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Thunder | the rolling |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rolling=Theme |
| 2 | **rumble** | gerund | Thunder *not said here* | tongue of branching lightning |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=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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