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title: Nearly all the pieces on reaching the surface were red hot, emitting… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Nearly all the pieces on reaching the surface were red hot, emitting steam and gas strongly sulphurous. Who acts: pieces. 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 86

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Nearly all the pieces on reaching the surface were red hot, emitting steam and gas strongly sulphurous.

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**Who acts:** pieces · **What happens:** reach, be, emit · **To what, where:** surface, steam

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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 (pieces), 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:pg66516:27:86
# text = Nearly all the pieces on reaching the surface were red hot, emitting steam and gas strongly sulphurous.
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	emitting	emit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	sulphurous	sulphurous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund | all pieces *not said here* | the surface |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent surface=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | all pieces |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **emit** | gerund | all pieces *not said here* | steam and gas |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source steam=Theme |

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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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