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title: All experienced a suffocating sensation upon the lungs and hastened… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: All experienced a suffocating sensation upon the lungs and hastened on with all possible speed. 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 every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 44

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All experienced a suffocating sensation upon the lungs and hastened on with all possible speed.

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**What happens:** experience, suffocate, hasten on · **To what, where:** suffocating sensation

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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:pg66516:21:44
# text = All experienced a suffocating sensation upon the lungs and hastened on with all possible speed.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	experienced	experience	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	suffocating	suffocate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past |  | a suffocating sensation |  |  |  | upon the lungs | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sensation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suffocate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hasten on** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with all possible speed | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with speed=Eventuality |

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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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