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title: A heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M., destroying 34 houses on the Waiakea si… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M., destroying 34 houses on the Waiakea side of the harbor, also the bridge and twelve houses between Waialama and Aiko’s old store. Who acts: heavy tidal wave. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its depend
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 93

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A heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M., destroying 34 houses on the Waiakea side of the harbor, also the bridge and twelve houses between Waialama and Aiko’s old store.

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**Who acts:** heavy tidal wave · **What happens:** destroy · **To what, where:** 34 houses, Waiakea side, old store

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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 (heavy 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:pg66516:27:93
# text = A heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M., destroying 34 houses on the Waiakea side of the harbor, also the bridge and twelve houses between Waialama and Aiko’s old store.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tidal	tidal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	A.M.	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
10	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Waiakea	Waiakea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
26	between	between	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Waialama	Waialama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Aiko	Aiko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **destroy** | gerund | a heavy tidal wave at 5 A.M. and the bridge and twelve houses between Waialama and Aiko *not said here* | 34 houses |  | the Waiakea side of the harbor |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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