---
title: All along the seashore from directly below us to Punaluu about three… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: All along the seashore from directly below us to Punaluu about three or four miles the sea was boiling and foaming furiously, all red.” Who acts: seashore. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/31/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mytholo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/) / [Volcanic Activity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/) / 31

# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 31

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All along the seashore from directly below us to Punaluu about three or four miles the sea was boiling and foaming furiously, all red.”

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** seashore · **What happens:** boil, foam

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (seashore), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:27:31
# text = All along the seashore from directly below us to Punaluu about three or four miles the sea was boiling and foaming furiously, all red.”
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	below	below	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Punaluu	Punaluu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	foaming	foam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	parataxis	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | past · progressive | the seashore from us  three miles  the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **foam** | gerund | the seashore from us  three miles  the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | furiously *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/30/)
- next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/32/)
- ↑ back to [Volcanic Activity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/)