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title: Wave was thirteen and a half feet above high water mark at Waiakea,… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Wave was thirteen and a half feet above high water mark at Waiakea, swept inland forty rods, accurate measurement.” Who acts: Wave. 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 95

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Wave was thirteen and a half feet above high water mark at Waiakea, swept inland forty rods, accurate measurement.”

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**Who acts:** Wave · **What happens:** be, sweep · **To what, where:** thirteen, forty rods

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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 (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:pg66516:27:95
# text = Wave was thirteen and a half feet above high water mark at Waiakea, swept inland forty rods, accurate measurement.”
1	Wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	7	compound	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Waiakea	Waiakea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	inland	inland	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	measurement	measurement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Wave | thirteen and half feet above high water mark at Waiakea |  |  |  | half feet above high water mark at Waiakea *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sweep** | past |  | forty rods and accurate measurement |  |  |  | inland *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rod=Trajectory |

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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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