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title: The lands of the people of Nanawale were quickly made a desolate wil… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The lands of the people of Nanawale were quickly made a desolate wilderness by the heat and the overflowing lava. Who acts: lands. 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 133

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The lands of the people of Nanawale were quickly made a desolate wilderness by the heat and the overflowing lava.

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**Who acts:** lands · **What happens:** make, desolate, overflow · **To what, where:** lands, wilderness

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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 (lands), 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:pg66516:27:133
# text = The lands of the people of Nanawale were quickly made a desolate wilderness by the heat and the overflowing lava.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Nanawale	Nanawale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	overflowing	overflow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the lands of the people of Nanawale |  |  |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive | the lands of the people of Nanawale *not said here* | wilderness |  |  |  | by the heat and the overflowing lava | tree rules |
| 3 | **overflow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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