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title: The cellar was dug through 5½ feet of ash and pumice which make the… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The cellar was dug through 5½ feet of ash and pumice which make the surface soil. Who acts: 5 ½ feet, ash. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Foundation of the Observatory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Foundation of the Observatory, sentence 88

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The cellar was dug through 5½ feet of ash and pumice which make the surface soil.

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**Who acts:** 5 ½ feet, ash · **What happens:** dig, make · **To what, where:** cellar, surface soil

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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 (5 ½ feet, ash), 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:pg66516:29:88
# text = The cellar was dug through 5½ feet of ash and pumice which make the surface soil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	½	½	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:agent	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ash	ash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pumice	pumice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | past · passive | 5 ½ feet of ash and pumice | the cellar |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | ash and pumice | the surface soil |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset soil=Product |

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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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