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title: In the summer of 1905 two friends journeyed across the desolate coun… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: In the summer of 1905 two friends journeyed across the desolate country which has been made more desolate by the eruption of 1907. Who acts: two friends, desolate country. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 19

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In the summer of 1905 two friends journeyed across the desolate country which has been made more desolate by the eruption of 1907.

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**Who acts:** two friends, desolate country · **What happens:** journey, desolate, make · **To what, where:** desolate country

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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 (two friends, desolate country), 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:pg66516:7:19
# text = In the summer of 1905 two friends journeyed across the desolate country which has been made more desolate by the eruption of 1907.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	compound	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	eruption	eruption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | past | two friends |  |  | the desolate country | summer | of 1905 | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of 1905=Trajectory |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | the desolate country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desolate** | infinitive | the desolate country *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the eruption of 1907 | tree rules |

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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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