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title: The voices of the dance were louder and clearer and more beautiful. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The voices of the dance were louder and clearer and more beautiful. Who acts: voices. 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 36

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The voices of the dance were louder and clearer and more beautiful.

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**Who acts:** voices · **What happens:** be

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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 (voices), 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:pg66516:14:36
# text = The voices of the dance were louder and clearer and more beautiful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the voices of the dance |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the voices of the dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the voices of the dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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