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title: “In the year 1822, or 1823 perhaps, there was an eruption from Kilau… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: “In the year 1822, or 1823 perhaps, there was an eruption from Kilauea pouring down into the Kau district very close to the Puna line. Who acts: eruption. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 112

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“In the year 1822, or 1823 perhaps, there was an eruption from Kilauea pouring down into the Kau district very close to the Puna line.

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**Who acts:** eruption · **What happens:** be, pour down, district · **To what, where:** 1822, Kau · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eruption), 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:pg66516:27:112
# text = “In the year 1822, or 1823 perhaps, there was an eruption from Kilauea pouring down into the Kau district very close to the Puna line.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	1822	1822	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	1823	1823	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Kau	Kau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	district	district	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Puna	Puna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past |  | 1822 in the year |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pour down** *in a quote* | gerund | a eruption from Kilauea *not said here* |  |  | the Kau |  | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into kau=Location |
| 3 | **district** *in a quote* | present | a eruption from Kilauea |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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