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title: A blast of sulphurous gas, a shower of heated embers, or a volume of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A blast of sulphurous gas, a shower of heated embers, or a volume of heated steam would sufficiently account for this sudden death. Who acts: volume. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 55

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A blast of sulphurous gas, a shower of heated embers, or a volume of heated steam would sufficiently account for this sudden death.

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**Who acts:** volume · **What happens:** heat, account, blast · **To what, where:** blast, sulphurous gas

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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 (volume), 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:pg66516:21:55
# text = A blast of sulphurous gas, a shower of heated embers, or a volume of heated steam would sufficiently account for this sudden death.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	heated	heat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **heat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **account** | would | a volume of heated steam |  |  |  |  | for this sudden death; sufficiently *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **blast** |  |  | sulphurous gas |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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