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title: March 31—From about 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. the shaking was incessant. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: March 31—From about 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. the shaking was incessant. Who acts: shaking. 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 20

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March 31—From about 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. the shaking was incessant.

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**Who acts:** shaking · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** 2 A.M., 31

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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 (shaking), 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:pg66516:27:20
# text = March 31—From about 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. the shaking was incessant.
1	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
2	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	From	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	P.M.	p.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	A.M.	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	incessant	incessant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the shaking | 2 A.M. *not said here* |  |  |  | incessant *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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