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title: This is a depth of 5.98 miles, and is known as the “Nero” deep. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This is a depth of 5.98 miles, and is known as the “Nero” deep. Who acts: This. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 10

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This is a depth of 5.98 miles, and is known as the “Nero” deep.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** depth

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg66516:25:10
# text = This is a depth of 5.98 miles, and is known as the “Nero” deep.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	5.98	5.98	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Nero	Nero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | a depth |  |  |  | of 5.98 miles | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the Nero | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as nero=Attribute |

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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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