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description: Mr. Richards, a missionary, later wrote as follows: “Along the way to the volcano she was accosted by multitudes and entreated not to proceed. Who acts: Richards, multitudes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree a
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 75

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Mr. Richards, a missionary, later wrote as follows: “Along the way to the volcano she was accosted by multitudes and entreated not to proceed.

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**Who acts:** Richards, multitudes · **What happens:** write, follow, accost, entreat, not proceed · **To what, where:** Mr.

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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 (Richards, multitudes), 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:pg66516:23:75
# text = Mr. Richards, a missionary, later wrote as follows: “Along the way to the volcano she was accosted by multitudes and entreated not to proceed.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Richards	Richards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	missionary	missionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	volcano	volcano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	accosted	accost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Richards  Mr. |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **follow** | present | Richards  Mr. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **accost** *in a quote* | past · passive | multitudes | Mr. |  |  |  | along the way to the volcano | tree rules |
| 4 | **entreat** *in a quote* | past | multitudes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **proceed** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | multitudes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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