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title: Following this on May 31, came the record “severe shake, things thro… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Following this on May 31, came the record “severe shake, things thrown down.” 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 96

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Following this on May 31, came the record “severe shake, things thrown down.”

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**What happens:** follow, come, throw down · **To what, where:** this, 31, record, things

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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: 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:pg66516:27:96
# text = Following this on May 31, came the record “severe shake, things thrown down.”
1	Following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shake	shake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  | this |  | 31  May |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent this=Theme on 31=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | the record |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location record=Theme |
| 3 | **throw down** *in a quote* | participle |  | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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