--- title: It rolled in over the tops of coconut trees, probably sixty feet hig… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: It rolled in over the tops of coconut trees, probably sixty feet high at least, driving all floating rubbish inland about a quarter of a mile—taking with it, when it returned to the sea, houses, men, and women and everything movable.” Who acts: wave. 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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 (wave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:27:29 # text = It rolled in over the tops of coconut trees, probably sixty feet high at least, driving all floating rubbish inland about a quarter of a mile—taking with it, when it returned to the sea, houses, men, and women and everything movable.” 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 coconut coconut NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 probably probably ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 14 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 19 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 20 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 amod _ _ 21 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 inland inland ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nsubj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 46 conj _ _ 49 movable movable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll in** | past | wave | | | the tops of coconut trees sixty feet | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over top=Trajectory | | 2 | **drive** | gerund | wave *not said here* | all floating rubbish | | | | a quarter of a mile *obl*; inland *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme rubbish=Trajectory | | 3 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | | houses and men | | | | with wave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **return** | past | wave | | | | | to the sea *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sea=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/30/) - ↑ back to [Volcanic Activity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/)