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title: In other words, the Pacific Ocean where the sounding was taken has a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In other words, the Pacific Ocean where the sounding was taken has a depth of 6.07 miles, exceeding by 482 feet the greatest depth hitherto known. Who acts: Pacific Ocean. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, with its d
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), The Crack in the Floor of the Pacific, sentence 8

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In other words, the Pacific Ocean where the sounding was taken has a depth of 6.07 miles, exceeding by 482 feet the greatest depth hitherto known.

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**Who acts:** Pacific Ocean · **What happens:** take, have, exceed, know · **To what, where:** sounding, depth, greatest 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 (Pacific Ocean), 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:pg66516:25:8
# text = In other words, the Pacific Ocean where the sounding was taken has a depth of 6.07 miles, exceeding by 482 feet the greatest depth hitherto known.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sounding	sounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	6.07	6.07	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	482	482	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	depth	depth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | the sounding |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Pacific Ocean in other words | a depth of 6.07 miles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Patient |
| 3 | **exceed** | gerund | the Pacific Ocean in other words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by 482 feet | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | the greatest depth *not said here* |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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