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title: The people made a vacant space for the passage of this wonderful str… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The people made a vacant space for the passage of this wonderful stranger, casting themselves on the ground before her. Who acts: people, wonderful stranger. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 53

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The people made a vacant space for the passage of this wonderful stranger, casting themselves on the ground before her.

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**Who acts:** people, wonderful stranger · **What happens:** make, cast, pass · **To what, where:** vacant space, people, ground

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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 (people, wonderful stranger), 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:pg66516:14:53
# text = The people made a vacant space for the passage of this wonderful stranger, casting themselves on the ground before her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	vacant	vacant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the people | a vacant space |  |  |  | for the passage of this wonderful stranger | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent space=Product for passage=Asset |
| 2 | **cast** | gerund | the people *not said here* | people |  | the ground | before multitude |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 3 | **pass** |  | this wonderful stranger |  |  |  |  |  | nom passage «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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