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title: They ran wires through pulleys along this cable and dropped the best… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: They ran wires through pulleys along this cable and dropped the best instruments they had with them straight down. 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 60

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They ran wires through pulleys along this cable and dropped the best instruments they had with them straight down.

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**Who acts:** observations · **What happens:** run, drop, have · **To what, where:** wires, pulleys, best instruments

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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:pg66516:26:60
# text = They ran wires through pulleys along this cable and dropped the best instruments they had with them straight down.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pulleys	pulley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | observations *= observation* | wires |  | pulleys |  | along this cable | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wire=Theme through pulley=Initial\_Location along cable=Trajectory |
| 2 | **drop** | past | observations *= observation* *not said here* | the best instruments |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | observations *= observation* | the best instruments *not said here* |  |  |  | with instruments *= instrument*; down *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=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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