--- title: Thus the record went on from month to month and year to year: “Earth… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics description: Thus the record went on from month to month and year to year: “Earthquake, motion up and down,” “Heavy shake, stone walls down, cream shaken off the milk,” “4 A.M., all the family aroused,” “Jar and a noise like distant cannon,” “Tremendous shock, brace ourselves to stand up,” “Kai-mimiki” (sea shak --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/8/) [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/) / 8 # Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 8 Thus the record went on from month to month and year to year: “Earthquake, motion up and down,” “Heavy shake, stone walls down, cream shaken off the milk,” “4 A.M., all the family aroused,” “Jar and a noise like distant cannon,” “Tremendous shock, brace ourselves to stand up,” “Kai-mimiki” (sea shaken by an earthquake), “All motions combined, earth like the sea.” **Who acts:** record, cream, 4 A.M., Tremendous shock, Kai mimiki · **What happens:** go on, shake off, arouse, shock, brace, stand up · **To what, where:** Heavy shake, milk, ourselves, sea, motions · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (record, cream, 4 A.M., Tremendous shock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66516:27:8 # text = Thus the record went on from month to month and year to year: “Earthquake, motion up and down,” “Heavy shake, stone walls down, cream shaken off the milk,” “4 A.M., all the family aroused,” “Jar and a noise like distant cannon,” “Tremendous shock, brace ourselves to stand up,” “Kai-mimiki” (sea shaken by an earthquake), “All motions combined, earth like the sea.” 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 Earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 motion motion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 up up ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 shake shake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 30 down down ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 33 shaken shake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 off off ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 39 “ " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 A.M. a.m. NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 45 det:predet _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 aroused arouse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 49 “ " PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 Jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 parataxis _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ _ 54 like like ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 cannon cannon NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ” " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 59 “ " PUNCT `` _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 Tremendous tremendous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 shock shock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 brace brace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 acl _ _ 64 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 63 obj _ _ 65 to to PART TO _ 66 mark _ _ 66 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 xcomp _ _ 67 up up ADP RP _ 66 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 68 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 ” " PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ _ 70 “ " PUNCT `` _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 73 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 72 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 73 mimiki mimiki NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 74 ” " PUNCT '' _ 73 punct _ _ 75 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 76 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 appos _ _ 77 shaken shake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 76 acl _ _ 78 by by ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 79 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 80 det _ _ 80 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 81 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 76 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 82 , , PUNCT , _ 86 punct _ _ 83 “ " PUNCT `` _ 86 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 84 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 85 det _ _ 85 motions motion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 86 nsubj:pass _ _ 86 combined combine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 73 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 87 , , PUNCT , _ 88 punct _ _ 88 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 conj _ _ 89 like like ADP IN _ 91 case _ _ 90 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 91 det _ _ 91 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 88 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 92 . . PUNCT . _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 93 ” " PUNCT '' _ 61 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | the record | Heavy shake and stone walls and cream | | | month; year | Earthquake and motion *parataxis*; thus *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **shake off** *in a quote* | participle | cream *not said here* | the milk | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | | 3 | **arouse** *in a quote* | past | 4 A.M. | | | | | all family *nsubj*; Jar and a noise like distant cannon *parataxis* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **shock** *in a quote* | | | | | | | Kai mimiki *conj*; earth like the sea *conj* | tree rules | | 5 | **brace** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tremendous shock and Kai mimiki and earth like the sea *not said here* | ourselves | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stand up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Tremendous shock and Kai mimiki and earth like the sea *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **shake** | participle | | sea *not said here* | | | | by a earthquake | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by earthquake=Location | | 8 | **combine** *in a quote* | participle · passive | Kai mimiki *not said here* | all motions | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/9/) - ↑ back to [Volcanic Activity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66516/27/)