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title: Thus many sea-caves were formed, into which waves beat violently wit… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus many sea-caves were formed, into which waves beat violently with every incoming tide. Who acts: waves. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Destruction of Kamehameha’s Fish-ponds, sentence 14

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Thus many sea-caves were formed, into which waves beat violently with every incoming tide.

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**Who acts:** waves · **What happens:** form, beat · **To what, where:** many sea caves

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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 (waves), 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:pg66516:22:14
# text = Thus many sea-caves were formed, into which waves beat violently with every incoming tide.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	incoming	incoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · passive |  | many sea caves |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **beat** | present | waves |  |  |  |  | with every incoming tide; which *obl*; violently *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent into which=Result with tide=Instrument |

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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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