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title: The roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames was the music of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames was the music of drums beaten for the accompaniment of the household dances. Who acts: roaring, household, furnaces. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 80

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The roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames was the music of drums beaten for the accompaniment of the household dances.

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**Who acts:** roaring, household, furnaces · **What happens:** be, beat, dance, roar · **To what, where:** music, drums, accompaniment

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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 (roaring, household, furnaces), 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:pg66516:23:80
# text = The roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames was the music of drums beaten for the accompaniment of the household dances.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roaring	roaring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	furnaces	furnace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crackling	crackling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	accompaniment	accompaniment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:agent	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the roaring of the furnaces and crackling of flames | the music |  |  |  | of drums | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  | drums *not said here* |  |  |  | the accompaniment *obl:agent* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | present | the household | the accompaniment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location accompaniment=Theme |
| 4 | **roar** |  | the furnaces and crackling of flames |  |  |  |  |  | nom roaring «event intransitive»: of=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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