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title: Some of the narrators who saw the corpses affirm that, though in no… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of the narrators who saw the corpses affirm that, though in no place deeply burnt, yet they were thoroughly scorched.” Who acts: narrators, Some. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Annihilation of Keoua’s Army, sentence 56

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Some of the narrators who saw the corpses affirm that, though in no place deeply burnt, yet they were thoroughly scorched.”

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**Who acts:** narrators, Some · **What happens:** see, affirm, scorch · **To what, where:** corpses

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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 (narrators, Some), 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:pg66516:21:56
# text = Some of the narrators who saw the corpses affirm that, though in no place deeply burnt, yet they were thoroughly scorched.”
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	narrators	narrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	affirm	affirm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
16	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the narrators | the corpses |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corpse=Stimulus |
| 2 | **affirm** | present | Some of the narrators |  |  |  |  | no place *ccomp* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **scorch** | past · passive |  | corpses *= corpse* |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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