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title: S. Lyman, now living in Hilo, wrote a journal letter, which was quot… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: S. Lyman, now living in Hilo, wrote a journal letter, which was quoted in full. Who acts: S.. 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 15

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S. Lyman, now living in Hilo, wrote a journal letter, which was quoted in full.

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**Who acts:** S. · **What happens:** live, write, quote · **To what, where:** Hilo, journal letter, full

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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 (S.), 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:pg66516:27:15
# text = S. Lyman, now living in Hilo, wrote a journal letter, which was quoted in full.
1	S.	S.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Lyman	Lyman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	journal	journal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | S. *not said here* |  |  | Hilo | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hilo=Location |
| 2 | **write** | past | S. | a journal letter |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | a journal letter |  | full |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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