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title: On one side was flowing fire and on the other the swift rapids of a… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: On one side was flowing fire and on the other the swift rapids of a river. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 100

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On one side was flowing fire and on the other the swift rapids of a river.

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**What happens:** flow · **To what, where:** fire, one side

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66516:27:100
# text = On one side was flowing fire and on the other the swift rapids of a river.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past · progressive |  | fire and the other swift rapids of a river |  | one side |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fire=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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