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title: The red flaming surge was the surf wherein they played. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The red flaming surge was the surf wherein they played. Who acts: red flaming surge, drums. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Kapiolani and Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Kapiolani and Pele, sentence 81

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The red flaming surge was the surf wherein they played.

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**Who acts:** red flaming surge, drums · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** surf

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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 (red flaming surge, drums), 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:pg66516:23:81
# text = The red flaming surge was the surf wherein they played.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	surge	surge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 | the red flaming surge | the surf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | past | drums *= drum* |  |  |  |  | wherein *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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