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title: A native writer, probably Kamakau, in the native newspaper Kuokoa, 1… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A native writer, probably Kamakau, in the native newspaper Kuokoa, 1867, describes the destruction of the central part of this army by an awful explosion from Kilauea. Who acts: native writer. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 22

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A native writer, probably Kamakau, in the native newspaper Kuokoa, 1867, describes the destruction of the central part of this army by an awful explosion from Kilauea.

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**Who acts:** native writer · **What happens:** describe, destroy · **To what, where:** destruction, central part

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (native writer), 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:pg66516:21:22
# text = A native writer, probably Kamakau, in the native newspaper Kuokoa, 1867, describes the destruction of the central part of this army by an awful explosion from Kilauea.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Kamakau	Kamakau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	Kuokoa	Kuokoa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	1867	1867	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | a native writer and the native newspaper | the destruction of the central part of this army |  |  |  | by a awful explosion from Kilauea | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent destruction=Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** |  |  | the central part of this army |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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