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title: Meanwhile, as this lava flow was making its descent, another branch… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, as this lava flow was making its descent, another branch broke away westward. Who acts: lava flow, branch, flow. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 13

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Meanwhile, as this lava flow was making its descent, another branch broke away westward.

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**Who acts:** lava flow, branch, flow · **What happens:** make, break away, descend · **To what, where:** descent

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lava flow, branch, flow), 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:pg66516:7:13
# text = Meanwhile, as this lava flow was making its descent, another branch broke away westward.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | this lava flow | flow's descent |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset descent=Product |
| 2 | **break away** | past | another branch |  |  |  |  | away, meanwhile, westward *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **descend** |  | flow |  |  |  |  |  | nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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