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title: Soon after midnight as the stars of the new day Wednesday, January n… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after midnight as the stars of the new day Wednesday, January ninth, looked down on the melting snows of Mauna Loa, a glorious fire-light broke out on the southern slope. Who acts: glorious fire light, Mauna. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu 
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 2

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Soon after midnight as the stars of the new day Wednesday, January ninth, looked down on the melting snows of Mauna Loa, a glorious fire-light broke out on the southern slope.

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**Who acts:** glorious fire light, Mauna · **What happens:** look down, break out, snow · **To what, where:** southern slope

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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 (glorious fire light, Mauna), 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:pg66516:7:2
# text = Soon after midnight as the stars of the new day Wednesday, January ninth, looked down on the melting snows of Mauna Loa, a glorious fire-light broke out on the southern slope.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ninth	ninth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	Loa	Loa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the stars of day Wednesday; on the melting snows of Mauna; soon *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on snow=Theme |
| 2 | **break out** | past | a glorious fire light |  |  | the southern slope |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=Location |
| 3 | **snow** |  | Mauna |  |  |  |  |  | nom snow «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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