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title: Occasional spasmodic efforts were made in both earthquake and lava f… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Occasional spasmodic efforts were made in both earthquake and lava flow until the fire cooled in the submarine chambers. Who acts: fire. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 17

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Occasional spasmodic efforts were made in both earthquake and lava flow until the fire cooled in the submarine chambers.

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**Who acts:** fire · **What happens:** make, cool · **To what, where:** Occasional spasmodic efforts, earthquake, submarine chambers

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Hawaiian Volcanoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg66516:26:17
# text = Occasional spasmodic efforts were made in both earthquake and lava flow until the fire cooled in the submarine chambers.
1	Occasional	occasional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	spasmodic	spasmodic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
8	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	cooled	cool	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	submarine	submarine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | Occasional spasmodic efforts |  | earthquake and lava flow |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **cool** | past | the fire |  |  | the submarine chambers |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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