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title: The heaviest shock, that of April 2d, destroyed every church and nea… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The heaviest shock, that of April 2d, destroyed every church and nearly every dwelling in the whole district. 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 26

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The heaviest shock, that of April 2d, destroyed every church and nearly every dwelling in the whole district.

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**What happens:** destroy · **To what, where:** church, heaviest shock

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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: 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:pg66516:27:26
# text = The heaviest shock, that of April 2d, destroyed every church and nearly every dwelling in the whole district.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	April	April	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	2d	2d	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	district	district	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | participle |  | every church and every dwelling in the whole district |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Patient |

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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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