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title: The man was silent and she went onward, descending several hundred f… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The man was silent and she went onward, descending several hundred feet, and there joined in a prayer to Jehovah. Who acts: man, fire. 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 90

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The man was silent and she went onward, descending several hundred feet, and there joined in a prayer to Jehovah.

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**Who acts:** man, fire · **What happens:** be, go, descend, join · **To what, where:** several hundred feet

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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 (man, fire), 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:pg66516:23:90
# text = The man was silent and she went onward, descending several hundred feet, and there joined in a prayer to Jehovah.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jehovah	Jehovah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | fire |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **descend** | gerund | fire *not said here* | several hundred feet |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foot=Theme |
| 4 | **join** | participle | the man *not said here* |  |  | there |  | in a prayer to Jehovah | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in prayer=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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