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title: But it was Lord Tennyson who set down for posterity the heroic deed… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was Lord Tennyson who set down for posterity the heroic deed of the great queen in the following beautiful poem: Who acts: length, Lord. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 104

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But it was Lord Tennyson who set down for posterity the heroic deed of the great queen in the following beautiful poem:

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**Who acts:** length, Lord · **What happens:** be, set down, follow · **To what, where:** Lord, heroic deed

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, Lord), 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:pg66516:23:104
# text = But it was Lord Tennyson who set down for posterity the heroic deed of the great queen in the following beautiful poem:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	Tennyson	Tennyson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	posterity	posterity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	case	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | length | Lord |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set down** | past | Lord | the heroic deed of the great queen in the beautiful poem |  |  |  | for posterity; who *nsubj* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent deed=Patient for posterity=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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