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title: The area below us was over two miles long and a mile and a half wide… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The area below us was over two miles long and a mile and a half wide with precipitous sides and a broad second shelf about 300 feet below the one we occupied with a fire fountain three-quarters of a mile away. Who acts: area, we. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Wes
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 57

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The area below us was over two miles long and a mile and a half wide with precipitous sides and a broad second shelf about 300 feet below the one we occupied with a fire fountain three-quarters of a mile away.

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**Who acts:** area, we · **What happens:** be, occupy · **To what, where:** one

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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 (area, we), 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:pg66516:27:57
# text = The area below us was over two miles long and a mile and a half wide with precipitous sides and a broad second shelf about 300 feet below the one we occupied with a fire fountain three-quarters of a mile away.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	below	below	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	12	conj	_	_
16	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	300	300	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	below	below	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the area below us |  |  |  |  | two miles *obl:unmarked*; a mile with precipitous sides and a half *conj*; a broad second shelf below the one and 300 feet *conj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occupy** | past | we | the one *not said here* |  |  |  | with a fire fountain  three quarters of a mile | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |

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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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