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title: In the night a terrific eruption took place, throwing out flame, cin… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In the night a terrific eruption took place, throwing out flame, cinders, and even heavy stones to a great distance and accompanied from above with intense lightning and heavy thunder. Who acts: terrific eruption. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Ann
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 33

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In the night a terrific eruption took place, throwing out flame, cinders, and even heavy stones to a great distance and accompanied from above with intense lightning and heavy thunder.

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**Who acts:** terrific eruption · **What happens:** take, throw out, accompany · **To what, where:** place, flame, great distance

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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 (terrific eruption), 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:pg66516:21:33
# text = In the night a terrific eruption took place, throwing out flame, cinders, and even heavy stones to a great distance and accompanied from above with intense lightning and heavy thunder.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	above	above	ADV	RB	_	25	obl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	intense	intense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a terrific eruption | place |  |  | night | to a great distance; heavy stones *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme to distance=Destination |
| 2 | **throw out** | gerund | a terrific eruption *not said here* | flame and cinders |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme |
| 3 | **accompany** | participle |  | a great distance *not said here* |  |  |  | intense lightning and heavy thunder *obl:agent* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from above=Destination |

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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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