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title: The antagonistic elements sought the sea side by side. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The antagonistic elements sought the sea side by side. Who acts: antagonistic elements. 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 101

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The antagonistic elements sought the sea side by side.

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**Who acts:** antagonistic elements · **What happens:** seek · **To what, where:** sea 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: who acts (antagonistic elements), 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:pg66516:27:101
# text = The antagonistic elements sought the sea side by side.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	antagonistic	antagonistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | the antagonistic elements | the sea side |  |  |  | by side | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Location |

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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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