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title: Soon followed an immense volume of sand and cinders which were throw… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon followed an immense volume of sand and cinders which were thrown in high heaven and came down in a destructive shower for many miles around. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 42

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Soon followed an immense volume of sand and cinders which were thrown in high heaven and came down in a destructive shower for many miles around.

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**What happens:** follow, throw, come down · **To what, where:** immense volume, cinders, high heaven, destructive shower

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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: 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:pg66516:21:42
# text = Soon followed an immense volume of sand and cinders which were thrown in high heaven and came down in a destructive shower for many miles around.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
26	around	around	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past |  | a immense volume of sand and cinders |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | past · passive |  | cinders |  | high heaven |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in heaven=Destination |
| 3 | **come down** | past |  |  |  | a destructive shower |  | for many miles; around, down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shower=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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