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title: In the issue of Feb. 28, 1877, he wrote: “As the steamer Kilauea cam… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In the issue of Feb. 28, 1877, he wrote: “As the steamer Kilauea came toward the bay, the passengers saw some canoes rowing about over boiling water. Who acts: H., steamer, passengers, canoes. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 76

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In the issue of Feb. 28, 1877, he wrote: “As the steamer Kilauea came toward the bay, the passengers saw some canoes rowing about over boiling water.

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**Who acts:** H., steamer, passengers, canoes · **What happens:** write, come, see, row, boil · **To what, where:** issue, bay, canoes, boiling water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (H., steamer, passengers, canoes), 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:pg66516:27:76
# text = In the issue of Feb. 28, 1877, he wrote: “As the steamer Kilauea came toward the bay, the passengers saw some canoes rowing about over boiling water.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	issue	issue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Feb.	February	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	1877	1877	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	As	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	steamer	steamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
19	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	canoes	canoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | H. |  |  | the issue of 28  Feb. |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the steamer |  |  | the bay |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme toward bay=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the passengers | some canoes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer canoe=Stimulus |
| 4 | **row** *in a quote* | gerund | some canoes *not said here* |  |  | boiling water |  | about *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Trajectory |
| 5 | **boil** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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