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title: The a-a (broken lava) of this eruption in its journey to the sea spr… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The a-a (broken lava) of this eruption in its journey to the sea spread about eight miles. Who acts: broken lava, lava. 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 114

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The a-a (broken lava) of this eruption in its journey to the sea spread about eight miles.

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**Who acts:** broken lava, lava · **What happens:** break, spread, journey

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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 (broken lava, lava), 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:pg66516:27:114
# text = The a-a (broken lava) of this eruption in its journey to the sea spread about eight miles.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | past | the broken lava of this eruption in lava's journey to the sea |  |  |  |  | about eight miles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about mile=Location |
| 3 | **journey** |  | lava |  |  |  |  | to the sea | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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