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title: Hooks are so rapidly moved by the commotion in the waters that fishi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Hooks are so rapidly moved by the commotion in the waters that fishing with hook and line is not very successful. Who acts: commotion, fishing. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 140

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Hooks are so rapidly moved by the commotion in the waters that fishing with hook and line is not very successful.

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**Who acts:** commotion, fishing · **What happens:** move, not be · **To what, where:** Hooks, waters

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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 (commotion, fishing), 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:pg66516:27:140
# text = Hooks are so rapidly moved by the commotion in the waters that fishing with hook and line is not very successful.
1	Hooks	hook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	commotion	commotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	det	_	_
13	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present · passive | the commotion | Hooks |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | that fishing with hook and line |  |  | the waters |  | successful *property* | 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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