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title: A veranda extending along two sides commands extensive views of the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: A veranda extending along two sides commands extensive views of the three volcanoes, Kilauea, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea. Who acts: veranda. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 83

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A veranda extending along two sides commands extensive views of the three volcanoes, Kilauea, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea.

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**Who acts:** veranda · **What happens:** extend, command, view · **To what, where:** two sides, extensive views, three volcanoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veranda), 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:pg66516:29:83
# text = A veranda extending along two sides commands extensive views of the three volcanoes, Kilauea, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	veranda	veranda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	commands	command	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Kilauea	Kilauea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **extend** | gerund | a veranda *not said here* |  |  | two sides |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent along side=Path |
| 2 | **command** | present | a veranda | extensive views of the three volcanoes |  |  |  | Mauna Kea *obl* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent view=Eventuality |
| 3 | **view** |  |  | the three volcanoes |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition 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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