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title: On October 3, 1833, she was tossed around in her home in a way somew… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: On October 3, 1833, she was tossed around in her home in a way somewhat alarming. 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 5

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On October 3, 1833, she was tossed around in her home in a way somewhat alarming.

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**What happens:** toss around · **To what, where:** Institute, 3

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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:pg66516:27:5
# text = On October 3, 1833, she was tossed around in her home in a way somewhat alarming.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	October	October	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	1833	1833	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	tossed	toss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	around	around	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	alarming	alarming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toss around** | past · passive |  | Institute |  | 3  October |  | in Institute's home; in a way; around *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on 3=Destination |

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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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