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title: This eruption flowed ten miles in two hours, and continued five days… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: This eruption flowed ten miles in two hours, and continued five days, destroying many thousands of acres of good lands.” Who acts: eruption. 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 39

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This eruption flowed ten miles in two hours, and continued five days, destroying many thousands of acres of good lands.”

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**Who acts:** eruption · **What happens:** flow, continue, destroy · **To what, where:** ten miles, many thousands

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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 (eruption), 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:pg66516:27:39
# text = This eruption flowed ten miles in two hours, and continued five days, destroying many thousands of acres of good lands.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past | this eruption | ten miles |  |  | hour |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **destroy** | gerund |  | many thousands of acres of good lands |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=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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