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title: When this column became great it blew all to pieces into sand and as… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When this column became great it blew all to pieces into sand and ashes and great stones, which for some days continued to fall around the sides of Kilauea. Who acts: column. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dep
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 27

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When this column became great it blew all to pieces into sand and ashes and great stones, which for some days continued to fall around the sides of Kilauea.

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**Who acts:** column · **What happens:** become, blow, continue, fall · **To what, where:** pieces, sand, sides

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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 (column), 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:pg66516:21:27
# text = When this column became great it blew all to pieces into sand and ashes and great stones, which for some days continued to fall around the sides of Kilauea.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
23	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | this column |  |  |  |  | great *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | past | column | pieces and ashes and great stones |  | sand |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent piece=Material into sand=Product |
| 3 | **continue** | past |  | pieces and ashes and great stones |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the sides of Kilauea |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around side=Location |

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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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