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description: Dana says: “A destructive earthquake wave was felt at the Hawaiian Islands on May 10, 1877, which rose at Hilo to a height of 36 feet. Who acts: Dana. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Volcanic Activity, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Volcanic Activity, sentence 97

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Dana says: “A destructive earthquake wave was felt at the Hawaiian Islands on May 10, 1877, which rose at Hilo to a height of 36 feet.

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**Who acts:** Dana · **What happens:** say, feel, rise · **To what, where:** destructive earthquake wave, Hawaiian Islands, Hilo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dana), 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:pg66516:27:97
# text = Dana says: “A destructive earthquake wave was felt at the Hawaiian Islands on May 10, 1877, which rose at Hilo to a height of 36 feet.
1	Dana	Dana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	destructive	destructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Hawaiian	Hawaiian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:unmarked	_	_
17	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	1877	1877	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Hilo	Hilo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dana |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feel** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | a destructive earthquake wave |  | the Hawaiian Islands |  | on 10  May | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at island=Location |
| 3 | **rise** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  | Hilo |  | to a height of 36 feet; which *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hilo=Location |

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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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