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title: Coming up to the forest— Attacking the trees— Clouds of smoke from t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Coming up to the forest— Attacking the trees— Clouds of smoke from the crater.” Who acts: Coming. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pili and Noho, sentence 224

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Coming up to the forest— Attacking the trees— Clouds of smoke from the crater.”

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**Who acts:** Coming · **What happens:** come up, attack, cloud · **To what, where:** forest, trees, smoke, crater

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pili and Noho. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coming), 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:pg66516:20:224
# text = Coming up to the forest— Attacking the trees— Clouds of smoke from the crater.”
1	Coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Attacking	attack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | gerund |  |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **attack** | gerund | Coming | the trees |  |  |  | Clouds of smoke from the crater *obl* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 3 | **cloud** |  |  | smoke |  | the crater |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient from=place |

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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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