---
title: One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century overthrew th… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century overthrew the stone and it now lies a great black mass of lava rock near the seashore. Who acts: One, stone. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, with its dependency tree and t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Hopoe, the Dancing Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/) / 4

# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hopoe, the Dancing Stone, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century overthrew the stone and it now lies a great black mass of lava rock near the seashore.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** One, stone · **What happens:** overthrow, lie, shock · **To what, where:** stone, great black mass, last century

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hopoe, the Dancing Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, stone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:15:4
# text = One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century overthrew the stone and it now lies a great black mass of lava rock near the seashore.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shocks	shock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overthrow** | past | One of the severe earthquake shocks of the last century | the stone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present | stone | a great black mass of lava rock near the seashore |  |  | now |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mass=Theme |
| 3 | **shock** |  |  | the last century |  |  |  |  | nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/3/)
- next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/5/)
- ↑ back to [Hopoe, the Dancing Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/15/)