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title: There is not only the gathering of cloud masses rolling beneath the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: There is not only the gathering of cloud masses rolling beneath the lover of the sublime,—this can be seen on all the large mountains of the world,—but here in the Hawaiian Islands the march of cloud armies sweeping over an ocean and spreading in ceaseless motion for miles over the lowlands receives
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Hawaiian Volcanoes, sentence 19

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There is not only the gathering of cloud masses rolling beneath the lover of the sublime,—this can be seen on all the large mountains of the world,—but here in the Hawaiian Islands the march of cloud armies sweeping over an ocean and spreading in ceaseless motion for miles over the lowlands receives an added element of majesty and awe when tossing, whirling cloud mountains roll into the extinct craters and slowly fill the bowl of the gods from rim to rim as the morning sun delicately touches the crater edges above the clouds with all the colors of the dawn.

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**Who acts:** gathering, cloud masses, cloud armies, march, morning sun · **What happens:** be, roll, see, sweep, spread, receive · **To what, where:** lover, this, large mountains, ocean, ceaseless motion, added element

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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 (gathering, cloud masses, cloud armies, march), 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:pg66516:26:19
# text = There is not only the gathering of cloud masses rolling beneath the lover of the sublime,—this can be seen on all the large mountains of the world,—but here in the Hawaiian Islands the march of cloud armies sweeping over an ocean and spreading in ceaseless motion for miles over the lowlands receives an added element of majesty and awe when tossing, whirling cloud mountains roll into the extinct craters and slowly fill the bowl of the gods from rim to rim as the morning sun delicately touches the crater edges above the clouds with all the colors of the dawn.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sublime	sublime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	58	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	acl	_	_
45	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	conj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	ceaseless	ceaseless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
55	over	over	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	lowlands	lowland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
58	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
59	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	amod	_	_
61	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
66	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	67	advmod	_	_
67	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
69	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	72	nsubj	_	_
70	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	compound	_	_
71	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	69	obj	_	_
72	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
73	into	into	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
75	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	amod	_	_
76	craters	crater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	72	obl	_	_
77	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	79	cc	_	_
78	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	79	advmod	_	_
79	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	72	conj	_	_
80	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
81	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obj	_	_
82	of	of	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
83	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	84	det	_	_
84	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	81	nmod	_	_
85	from	from	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
86	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	obl	_	_
87	to	to	PART	TO	_	88	mark	_	_
88	rim	rim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	79	advcl	_	_
89	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	94	mark	_	_
90	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	92	det	_	_
91	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	92	compound	_	_
92	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	94	nsubj	_	_
93	delicately	delicately	ADV	RB	_	94	advmod	_	_
94	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	88	advcl	_	_
95	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	97	det	_	_
96	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	97	compound	_	_
97	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	94	obj	_	_
98	above	above	ADP	IN	_	100	case	_	_
99	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	100	det	_	_
100	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	97	nmod	_	_
101	with	with	ADP	IN	_	104	case	_	_
102	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	104	det:predet	_	_
103	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	104	det	_	_
104	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	100	nmod	_	_
105	of	of	ADP	IN	_	107	case	_	_
106	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	107	det	_	_
107	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	104	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
108	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the gathering of cloud masses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund | cloud masses *not said here* |  |  | the lover |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath lover=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | can · passive |  | this |  | all large mountains of the world; here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sweep** | gerund | cloud armies *not said here* |  |  | a ocean |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ocean=Trajectory |
| 5 | **spread** | gerund | cloud armies *not said here* |  |  | ceaseless motion |  | for miles; over the lowlands | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in motion=Location |
| 6 | **receive** | present | the march of cloud armies | a added element of majesty and awe |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent element=Theme in island=Location |
| 7 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **toss** | gerund | the march of cloud armies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **whirl** | gerund |  | cloud mountains |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme |
| 10 | **roll** | present |  |  |  | the extinct craters |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into crater=Destination |
| 11 | **fill** | infinitive |  | the bowl of the gods |  | rim |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient |
| 12 | **rim** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **touch** | present | the morning sun | the crater edges |  | the clouds with all colors of the dawn |  | delicately *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme edge=Co-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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