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title: Three boats from the steamer went out, cruising over the most active… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Three boats from the steamer went out, cruising over the most active part of the boiling waters, appearing as if passing over rapids. Who acts: Three boats. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 81

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Three boats from the steamer went out, cruising over the most active part of the boiling waters, appearing as if passing over rapids.

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**Who acts:** Three boats · **What happens:** go out, cruise, appear, pass · **To what, where:** active part, rapids

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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 (Three boats), 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:pg66516:27:81
# text = Three boats from the steamer went out, cruising over the most active part of the boiling waters, appearing as if passing over rapids.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	steamer	steamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cruising	cruise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Three boats from the steamer |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cruise** | gerund | Three boats from the steamer *not said here* |  |  | the active part of the boiling waters |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over part=Trajectory |
| 3 | **appear** | gerund | Three boats from the steamer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund | Three boats from the steamer *not said here* |  |  | rapids |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over rapid=Location |

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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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