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title: For some hours great floods of lava poured forth with extraordinary… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: For some hours great floods of lava poured forth with extraordinary activity, quickly covering a vast area of land on the side of the mountain about four thousand feet below the summit crater. Who acts: great floods, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 5

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For some hours great floods of lava poured forth with extraordinary activity, quickly covering a vast area of land on the side of the mountain about four thousand feet below the summit crater.

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**Who acts:** great floods, lava · **What happens:** pour, cover, flood · **To what, where:** lava, vast area, side, great floods

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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 (great floods, lava), 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:pg66516:7:5
# text = For some hours great floods of lava poured forth with extraordinary activity, quickly covering a vast area of land on the side of the mountain about four thousand feet below the summit crater.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	activity	activity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
31	below	below	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	crater	crater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | participle |  | lava *not said here* |  |  |  | with extraordinary activity; forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with activity=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | great floods for some hours of lava *not said here* | a vast area of land |  | the side of the mountain |  | thousand feet *obj*; quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flood** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «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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