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title: About forty sea miles off the north coast of Mindanao, the largest a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: About forty sea miles off the north coast of Mindanao, the largest and most southerly of the important islands of the Philippines, the “Planet” found a depth of 32,078 feet. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, with its
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 7

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About forty sea miles off the north coast of Mindanao, the largest and most southerly of the important islands of the Philippines, the “Planet” found a depth of 32,078 feet.

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**What happens:** find · **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: 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:pg66516:25:7
# text = About forty sea miles off the north coast of Mindanao, the largest and most southerly of the important islands of the Philippines, the “Planet” found a depth of 32,078 feet.
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	north	north	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mindanao	Mindanao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	southerly	southerly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Philippines	Philippines	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Ptan	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Planet	Planet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	32,078	32,078	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past |  | a depth of 32,078 feet |  |  |  | southerly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Topic |

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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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