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title: Those who were Christians were afraid that some awful explosion migh… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who were Christians were afraid that some awful explosion might overwhelm the company, as a large body of warriors had been destroyed thirty-four years before. Who acts: Those, awful explosion. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, w
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 38

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Those who were Christians were afraid that some awful explosion might overwhelm the company, as a large body of warriors had been destroyed thirty-four years before.

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**Who acts:** Those, awful explosion · **What happens:** be, overwhelm, destroy · **To what, where:** company, large body

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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 (Those, awful explosion), 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:pg66516:23:38
# text = Those who were Christians were afraid that some awful explosion might overwhelm the company, as a large body of warriors had been destroyed thirty-four years before.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	explosion	explosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	overwhelm	overwhelm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Those |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; Christians *nsubj*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **overwhelm** | might | some awful explosion | the company |  |  |  | as a large body | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus company=Experiencer |
| 3 | **destroy** | past · perfect · passive |  | a large body *not said here* |  |  | year | of warriors | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |

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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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