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title: Some few persons of the forward company were burned to death by the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Some few persons of the forward company were burned to death by the sand and cinders and others were seriously injured. Who acts: sand. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 43

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Some few persons of the forward company were burned to death by the sand and cinders and others were seriously injured.

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**Who acts:** sand · **What happens:** burn, injure · **To what, where:** few persons, cinders

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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 (sand), 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:pg66516:21:43
# text = Some few persons of the forward company were burned to death by the sand and cinders and others were seriously injured.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · passive | the sand | some few persons of the forward company |  |  |  | to death | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **injure** | past · passive |  | cinders and others |  |  |  | seriously *property* | tree rules |

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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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