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title: The surpassing sea depth now discovered may appropriately be named t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The surpassing sea depth now discovered may appropriately be named the “Planet” deep. Who acts: surpassing sea depth. 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 11

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The surpassing sea depth now discovered may appropriately be named the “Planet” deep.

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**Who acts:** surpassing sea depth · **What happens:** surpass, discover, name · **To what, where:** surpassing sea 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 (surpassing sea depth), 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:pg66516:25:11
# text = The surpassing sea depth now discovered may appropriately be named the “Planet” deep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	appropriately	appropriately	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Planet	Planet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **surpass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **discover** | past | the surpassing sea depth *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **name** | may · passive |  | the surpassing sea depth |  |  |  | the Planet *xcomp*; appropriately, deep *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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