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title: When the lava struck the waves, the surface and sides were hardened,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When the lava struck the waves, the surface and sides were hardened, but the red molten mass inside rolled on into the sea. Who acts: lava, red molten mass. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, with its dependency tree
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 13

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When the lava struck the waves, the surface and sides were hardened, but the red molten mass inside rolled on into the sea.

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**Who acts:** lava, red molten mass · **What happens:** strike, harden, roll on · **To what, where:** waves, surface, sea

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava, red molten mass), 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:pg66516:22:13
# text = When the lava struck the waves, the surface and sides were hardened, but the red molten mass inside rolled on into the sea.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	hardened	harden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the lava | the waves |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient |
| 2 | **harden** | past · passive |  | the surface and sides |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **roll on** | past | the red molten mass |  |  | the sea |  | inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Destination |

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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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