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title: When it came to the sea mighty was the stormy rage and the boiling o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: When it came to the sea mighty was the stormy rage and the boiling of the sea, the steam rising in clouds to the sky. Who acts: Narrow, sea mighty, steam. 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 128

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When it came to the sea mighty was the stormy rage and the boiling of the sea, the steam rising in clouds to the sky.

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**Who acts:** Narrow, sea mighty, steam · **What happens:** come, be, rise · **To what, where:** clouds

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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 (Narrow, sea mighty, steam), 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:pg66516:27:128
# text = When it came to the sea mighty was the stormy rage and the boiling of the sea, the steam rising in clouds to the sky.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	mighty	mighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Narrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sea mighty |  |  |  |  | to the stormy rage and the boiling of the sea and the steam; the boiling of the sea *conj*; the steam *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | the steam *not said here* |  |  | clouds to the sky |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cloud=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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