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title: They stretched a wire cable 1,500 feet long from wall to wall over t… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They stretched a wire cable 1,500 feet long from wall to wall over the lake of fire. Who acts: observations. 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 59

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They stretched a wire cable 1,500 feet long from wall to wall over the lake of fire.

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**Who acts:** observations · **What happens:** stretch · **To what, where:** wire cable, wall

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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 (observations), 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:pg66516:26:59
# text = They stretched a wire cable 1,500 feet long from wall to wall over the lake of fire.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	1,500	1,500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | observations *= observation* | a wire cable |  | wall |  | to wall *result*; over the lake of fire | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent cable=Patient to wall=Result |

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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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