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title: Following the earthquake came a great tidal wave at Punaluu. — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Following the earthquake came a great tidal wave at Punaluu. Who acts: great tidal wave. 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 28

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Following the earthquake came a great tidal wave at Punaluu.

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**Who acts:** great tidal wave · **What happens:** follow, come · **To what, where:** earthquake

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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 (great tidal wave), 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:pg66516:27:28
# text = Following the earthquake came a great tidal wave at Punaluu.
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Punaluu	Punaluu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | the earthquake |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earthquake=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a great tidal wave at Punaluu |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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