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title: His home was on the crest of an almost inaccessible precipice up whi… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: His home was on the crest of an almost inaccessible precipice up which he would rush with incredible speed. Who acts: home, crest. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and the Owl Ghost-god, sentence 9

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His home was on the crest of an almost inaccessible precipice up which he would rush with incredible speed.

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**Who acts:** home, crest · **What happens:** be, rush · **To what, where:** crest

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and the Owl Ghost-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (home, crest), 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:pg66516:6:9
# text = His home was on the crest of an almost inaccessible precipice up which he would rush with incredible speed.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	inaccessible	inaccessible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	precipice	precipice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	incredible	incredible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | dragon's home |  |  | the crest |  | of a inaccessible precipice | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** | would | the crest |  |  |  |  | with incredible speed; dragon *nsubj* | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with speed=Eventuality |

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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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