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title: Mrs. Lyman has the record of a terrible tidal wave which struck Hilo… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Mrs. Lyman has the record of a terrible tidal wave which struck Hilo harbor in May of that same year: “1877, May 10. Who acts: Mrs., terrible tidal wave. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 92

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Mrs. Lyman has the record of a terrible tidal wave which struck Hilo harbor in May of that same year: “1877, May 10.

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**Who acts:** Mrs., terrible tidal wave · **What happens:** have, strike, record · **To what, where:** record, Hilo harbor, terrible tidal wave

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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 (Mrs., terrible tidal wave), 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:pg66516:27:92
# text = Mrs. Lyman has the record of a terrible tidal wave which struck Hilo harbor in May of that same year: “1877, May 10.
1	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Lyman	Lyman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	1877	1877	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Mrs. | the record of a terrible tidal wave |  |  |  | 1877 *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** | past | a terrible tidal wave | Hilo harbor |  |  | may |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harbor=Patient |
| 3 | **record** |  |  | a terrible tidal wave |  |  |  |  | nom record «communication transitive»: of=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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